![]() ![]() In addition, it’s not the individual games that determine who wins, but the games of all four players on each national team, where all games count. In Chennai there was one game at a time, in Tromsø there would be around 650 simultaneously. While the game remained the same, the challenge for us as a broadcaster changed immensely. Chess Olympiad bound for Norwayįor the Chess Olympics that would be held on home soil in Tromsø, we wanted our broadcasts to build upon the formula we discovered during the World Cup in India. ![]() In the studio we had experts who explaining the game – both verbally and through a graphical analysis board – and answered questions from the presenter and audience via email and social media (using #NRKsjakk). It consisted of an image of seated athletes, in addition to a graphical representation of the chess board along with the computer’s calculation of the position – everything displayed on top of background graphics. In Carlsen’s World Cup encounters against Viswanathan Anand in Chennai, India, last year we found a formula that also made the game exciting to follow on TV. With Magnus Carlsen rising as a star in the chess world, interest in the game increased dramatically here in Norway. Illustration showing how various elements in the broadcast from each match is put together. ![]() When The Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) planned the television broadcast of the now ongoing Chess Olympiad 2014 in Tromsø, Norway, we encountered a challenge: How do we mix video, graphics and the results of many ongoing chess games simultaneously? The solution included a rack full of mini-switchers, open source, HTML5 code still in beta – and a bunch of $80 miniature computers. ![]()
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