So now the Carlsen v Candidates-winner world Championship Match has been set up, how many people are going to watch it?

605 million, perhaps?

Not at all.

More.

This many.

And why not? After all...

The last World Championship match, held in Russia in 2014, enjoyed record-breaking coverage with the total audience for the whole event topping 1.2bn people

Heh, no, obviously it didn't, though it's not the first time somebody's claimed that sort of figure for a match.

Sill, why stop when you're on a roll?

Pick your own nonsense out of that lot, there's more than one to choose from.

More of this rubbish to come. We can at least be sure of that.

[Thanks to Olimpiu Urcan and anon]