Because I grew up in the United States of America and believe in freedom from oppression and disobedience to illegitimate authority, I would like to take this opportunity to voice my support for the growing number of chess websites that are lining up to disobey the illegal order of Agon and the World Chess Federation to block the broadcast of moves from the Candidates 2016 tournament.
Chess24 sent out a link earlier via Twitter with a video broadcast feed for the event on LiveStream
The Candidates Opening Ceremony should be watchable here without signing your life away :) https://t.co/Ujj1H0ZLkh #c24live
— chess24.com (@chess24com) March 10, 2016
Chessbomb, which is one of my personal favorite sites for following tournament games, has posted instructions on its blog so that fans can help the site broadcast the games. I encourage you, if you have the time and resources available, to check out the instructions and support Chessbomb and other websites in broadcasting these moves around the world! Do not let corporate greed silence the chess community!
Here is the full text of the instructions from Chessbomb:
As explained in this post, ChessBomb will not use the official site of the FIDE Candidates Tournament 2016 because we don’t accept or agree to their Terms and Conditions. This means we have to obtain the moves from other sources. First and foremost, we rely on volunteers to anonymously submit the moves to us. Here is how you can do that:
- Download and install the Tor Browser.
- Using the Tor Browser, visit this link: http://cbomb73x6akxqm6r.onion/
- Select a game, and send us any missing moves!
- Click Back, repeat step 3.
- By using a Tor Hidden Service, we protect the anonymity of the volunteers. We don’t know their IP addresses or locations, so we can’t be compelled to reveal them.
Your support means everything to us. Thank you!
