Let's Get Ready to Checkmate!
The details of this fall's World Chess Championship in New York have been finalized.
Would it help attract attention and media coverage to the sport of chess if Michael Buffer introduced a championship match with the exclamation in our headline?
As Guardian feature writer (and Surrey chess champion) Stephen Moss hints, that general sort of postulation hangs over the sport and is a big reason why our fair city has been chosen as the location of the next World Championship. The contest will pit Norwegian world champion Magnus Carlsen (pictured) against Russian challenger Sergey Karjakin:
The 12-game match will start on November 11 and be played over a three-week period at the newly refurbished Fulton Market building in central New York.
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