Day 1 | FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships

Commentators: 🇭🇺 GM Peter Leko, 🇺🇸 GM Irina Krush and 🇺🇦 GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko

➡️ The FIDE World Rapid and Blitz Team Championships are taking place in Kazakhstan from the 1st to the 6th of August! 🔥

What you need to know about the championships:
🌍 Location: Astana, Kazakhstan 🇰🇿
🗓️ Dates: August 1 - 6
💰 Total Prize Fund: 350,000 €
👥 Teams of 6-9 players from all over the world will be participating!

[Zwellop]

22:07 - Round 1
27:30 - Digital boards start
1:20:45 - Bibisara Assaubayeva interview
2:27:20 - Delay in Round 2, pairings are changed
2:46:58 - Round 2
3:56:57 - Arjun Erigaisi interview
4:11:43 - Ian Nepomniachtchi interview
4:15:07 - Round 3
4:18:40 - Commentary starts
5:24:15 - Anna Muzychuk interview
5:26:51 - Adhiban Baskaran interview
5:30:01 - Ding Liren interview
5:37:26 - Round 4
6:08:51 - Magnus losing, Nepo shocked

[Scaw]

Bad coverage. There is a disconnect between the commentary and the games being displayed all made much worse by the rapid switching from one game to another one.

[Randomthings]

You can’t even display points table on broadcast? What a shabby production and you call this world championship

[tomaskee]

I really dont see the point of streaming an event like this to viewers when there isn't anything for the convenience of the viewers. There is no scoreboard to keep track of team standings, so many broadcast pauses. Genuinely why should we even bother with watching the broadcast when we can just go and watch some clips taken from the event or just watch some recaps instead.

[jocachess]

The broadcast should show more images of the matches, with a smaller board and smaller commentators....it's too heavy!

[johnnydoe]

Entire Livestream looks laggy.

I wonder What Prehistoric Hardware
& Software are getting Used ? 😅

[mattyb]

FIDE you need a better analysis board. There is a big glare on the top left of it cmon you can do better.

[daryab]

In the beginning, I think it would be great to have some showdown of the teams and their members.

[daylamianfernandezdecastro]

4:24:56 Peter Leko "I don't know how Magnus do these... he does something strange and after move 10 he is already extremely comfortable. It's just crazy no? u know its Magnus"

[mcawesome]

4:15:08 carlsen fails at opening the bottle (again)

[jaypraxxz]

Horrible coverage. It's a great event that deserves much better

[teddymagcawas]

Why Philippines did not joined here..maybe next year..Fide Philippines..lets unite lets go for the Fide Philippines membership..need po naten mag recruit ng mga Fide members Philippines.

[FongYukYu]

🥴 The players' timers (top/bottom right of the chessboard) are not legible at all. Who tf thought light gray text on top of orange is a good idea?!

The FIDE team needs to brush up on web accessibility standards (WCAG) 🙏

[metesebiyakifle]

3:46:27 funniest point of the broadcast

[yrtocsavu]

3:06:15
4:52:40
5:00:20
Round 4
5:41:20

[pifflesticks]

Just letting you know that there is unintentional audio in the first few minutes of all the commentators speaking

[PohonPinuss]

Is it that hard to make a table of standing? 😂

[daryab]

In the beginning, I think it would be great to have some showdown of the teams and their members.