My segment on The World
Produced by Public Radio International, co-produced with BBC World Service and WGBH Radio Boston.
Predictably, they cut it down to the bland sound bites, ignoring the discussion of why it’s significant that Anand win a match to truly become the undisputed World Champion. OK, it’s a short segment, but that’s the real news.
The obligatory “chess was invented in India?” section was a drag. It would be nice to get past that. I mean, we don’t find a story about the World Series dwelling on the fact that Baseball was invented in in the U.S.A.
If you have just 3 minutes to talk about Lennox Lewis fighting Mike Tyson, you don’t spend half of it asking about who invented the boxing glove!
And worst of all, they cut my tennis analogy completely! 
Still, this went out to 2 million listeners on around 200 public radio stations in 41 states this afternoon…not too bad.
World chess competition (3:34)
October 22, 2008 | download | permalink | email
The title of “world chess champion” is up for grabs in Bonn, Germany. The two finalists – from India and from Russia — are battling through a 12-game match. Anchor Marco Werman gets the latest from reporters Macauley Peterson and Arvind Aaron, who are covering the showdown for the Internet Chess Club.
