I've been enjoying your email list this far, so thanks for that.
But I'm writing to say one thing: Please don't put results right in the subject line of your email! If it wasn't in the subject, I would have already known not to click on the email until after watching.
As you know there hasn't been much chess these last couple weeks, and Tata is the biggest classical tournament of the year.
I'm not getting up at 4am (or whatever time PST) and sometimes due to time constraints, I might even fall a couple days behind (I'll avoid chess news until I'm caught up), and I'm always watching replays on Youtube.
I was literally just this moment going to look for coverage on Youtube, and I still will watch it, but now I already know the 2 big winners.
With some one-day events, like Chess.com's Speed Chess Championship matches, I've hidden the results, even to the point of only giving them in the comments. I don't think this is the same sort of thing, however: knowing that X drew with Y and A beat B in round 1 of a 13-round tournament doesn't spoil too much. Besides, there were what, six or seven hours between the end of the round and my post? That's plenty of time for fans to find the games on a zillion other sites (TWIC, Chess24 Lichess, Chess.com, Playchess, ICC, 2700Chess, etc., not to mention YouTube) and replay them there before reading my post.
By the way, it's not in the subject line, but in the sub-header. Unless you click on the email or are looking at the preview, you'll only see "Wijk aan Zee, Round 1". So while I'm not sure that there's anything wrong with giving "spoilers" of an event that ended hours earlier, I'm pleading extra-innocent on this one!
Hi,
I've been enjoying your email list this far, so thanks for that.
But I'm writing to say one thing: Please don't put results right in the subject line of your email! If it wasn't in the subject, I would have already known not to click on the email until after watching.
As you know there hasn't been much chess these last couple weeks, and Tata is the biggest classical tournament of the year.
I'm not getting up at 4am (or whatever time PST) and sometimes due to time constraints, I might even fall a couple days behind (I'll avoid chess news until I'm caught up), and I'm always watching replays on Youtube.
I was literally just this moment going to look for coverage on Youtube, and I still will watch it, but now I already know the 2 big winners.
Hi Chris,
With some one-day events, like Chess.com's Speed Chess Championship matches, I've hidden the results, even to the point of only giving them in the comments. I don't think this is the same sort of thing, however: knowing that X drew with Y and A beat B in round 1 of a 13-round tournament doesn't spoil too much. Besides, there were what, six or seven hours between the end of the round and my post? That's plenty of time for fans to find the games on a zillion other sites (TWIC, Chess24 Lichess, Chess.com, Playchess, ICC, 2700Chess, etc., not to mention YouTube) and replay them there before reading my post.
By the way, it's not in the subject line, but in the sub-header. Unless you click on the email or are looking at the preview, you'll only see "Wijk aan Zee, Round 1". So while I'm not sure that there's anything wrong with giving "spoilers" of an event that ended hours earlier, I'm pleading extra-innocent on this one!