Author: Pallav Nawani
Date: 11:17:04 04/26/05
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On April 26, 2005 at 11:10:03, Steven Edwards wrote: >On April 26, 2005 at 10:33:01, José Antônio Fabiano Mendes wrote: > >> Harvard Business Review, April 2005 >> >>For a start, they were a huge promotion for the game. Nothing made chess more >>popular than the match I won against Deep Blue in 1996 and the match I lost in >>1997. The official Web site got 72 million hits during the six games of the >>second match in New York, which was a higher daily rate than the Atlanta Olympic >>Games Web site got in 1996. > >Wrong. The Fischer era starting around 1970 had a far, far deeper impact on >chess popularity. See the USCF annual membership numbers for proof. > Wrong. Fisher era had deep impact on chess popularity in US. FYI, US != World. Pallav
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