Norway million Dollar Grand Tour Sponsor Altibox Leaves Grand tour London, England \u2026 THEY ARE GONE \u2026 faced with elitism, UNKNOWN TO TENNIS, GOLF, SOCCER \u2026 (just 10 great players and no women), horrific long, impossible to broadcast worldwide time controls … ALTIBOX OF NORWAY has suddenly pulled totally out of the three nation million dollar chess \u201cgrand tour\u201d … it became obvious that a huge just signed Norwegian guaranteed world tv contract (2016-2020 ) for ALL world chess champion Magnus Carlsen world chess title broadcasts WITH HUNDREDS OF WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS ALSO COMPETING FROM 16O NATIONS \u2026 would starkly CONTRAST THE TOUR … never permitting audiences to participate or view local divisional competition by Grand Tour home town hero qualifiers. Again, all chess is local \u2026 Chess immortal V. KRAMNIK … still a world top 5 grandmaster who defeated fierce rival former world champion Kasparov (a key organizer of the tour) and who was also cheated of a world title game match point by the censored worldwide Grand Tour player Topalov \u2026 did not participate in last years event … It may be that Altibox\/Norway feels they must now let everybody play chess ala the Millionaire Chess International (Las Vegas) and the just completed Qatar 134 player international \u00a0… like poker \u2026 THE WORLD SERIES OF CHESS may be coming. ESPECIALLY DAMAGING TO THE 2016 \u201cGRAND TOUR\u201d WAS ABSENCE OF ANY ROLE FOR MOST CHINESE OLYMPIAD WORLD TEAM CHAMPION PLAYERS \u2026 AND FRENCH GRANDMASTER \u201cMVL\u201d IS REPORTED OUT THIS YEAR \u2026 Ratings will apparently no longer do the job. AT THE TOP\u2026 one can simply sit and not play at all with no rival qualifiers likely.<\/p>\n
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