Escape from Alcatraz

Agon Limited, the well-known commercial partner of FIDE, would have decided to sue (once again) at least three of the major chess websites in order to prevent them from broadcasting live moves and coverage of the impending World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin. The (not-too-breaking) news was given by Reuters Agency and immediately relaunched by Tarjei J. Svensen, Magnus Carlsen’s Twitterman. We were quite sure that the passage from three-dimensional virtual reality to closed-circuit video surveillance would have been easy.