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Quick rant on a really bad website: anand-topalov.com

My problems with the website:

• Link named Information… is not the whole site information
• The Information link takes you to a blank page… (well technically the page has 5 small links that I dis not notice the first 2 times at the site)
• The copyright policy tells people not to share this news worthy event:

All copyright, trade marks, design rights, patents and other intellectual property rights (registered and unregistered) in and on www.anand-topalov.com and all content (including all applications) located on the site shall remain vested in the Bulgarian Chess Federation or its licensors. You may not copy, reproduce, republish, disassemble, decompile, reverse engineer, download, post, broadcast, transmit, make available to the public, or otherwise use www.anand-topalov.com content in any way except for your own personal, non-commercial use. You also agree not to adapt, alter or create a derivative work from any www.anand-topalov.com content except for your own personal, non-commercial use. Any other use of www.anand-topalov.com content requires the prior written permission of the Bulgarian Chess Federation.

Really you are running a major media event and you do not want us the share the games, the website or the excitement without prior written approval.  Please fire your lawyer and hire a 20 something PR person who understands the internet and how to enable sharing content.  It will get you a lot further in the digital world.

IF you really want to follow the Championship go to ChessBase instead.  (Chessbase does not have RSS /grrrr, but other then that they are the best chess news online.)