Business Daily meets: World Chess CEO Ilya Merenzon
How do you make a game with a conservative image more marketable, and more profitable?
How do you make a game with a conservative image more marketable, and more profitable?
Chess has been played for centuries, two people facing off over chessboard, but now it’s big business online too.
Business Daily’s Dougal Shaw meets the head of World Chess, Ilya Merenzon, to talk about expanding the sport, the opportunities of the digital format, and the challenge of the recent cheating scandals.
Produced and presented by Dougal Shaw.
(Image: Magnus Carlsen at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament in January 2021. Credit: Getty Images)
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