The crazy broadcast setup for Global Chess League 2026

Yes sir.

Hello, hello guys. आपका नाम बताइए सर। I'm Jayesh.

Jayesh. Nayan.

Nayan.

Nice.

Okay. ये इतने सारे लोग हैं। You're going to take me to your PCR room.

Just to show where the magic happens.

Okay, let's go.

I hope you loved the show.

The show was amazing. I think people all across The world loved it, and so we want to show the world where the magic happens. What you guys, the technology you use, क्या-क्या किया है आप लोगों ने? ये माइक भी आप रख सकते हो to speak.

नहीं मैं आपको करा। Yeah.

नहीं हाथ में रखो सो लेकिन pass.

So this is by this is day one I came here. Yeah.

I shot this, but I didn't know anything much what was happening now.

You can explain me कि क्या-क्या हो रहा था। So we are going with our cameras, Samay.

Yes.

So we have another Samay.

Let's go, bye. Samay, bye. Very famous.

Yeah. And Sarvjit also from my team.

Hello.

So this is our CC unit, camera control unit. So we take all the camera feed. We have broadcast cameras that are Grass Valley and Ikegami cameras that I've shown you on that day. हाँ वो बड़े-बड़े वाले। Yes yes.

Dead dead करोड़ वाले। That are that is only the lens. अच्छा lens.

Lens yeah. So this is our broadcast.

So it goes inside this.

Yeah, through this we do our CCU, like the color corrections. And through this we take our feed live on our mixers.

Okay.

Then we take into our director PCs. This is the very rough idea, correct, Sameer?

Yes.

So this is our three play machine. This is our EVS. So through this we take all the super slow-mo. You can see we are having all the yeah all the replays. Replays. Yes, you can see.

Crazy, bye. ये क्या कर रहे हो आप?

This is via okay. So we are rewinding all the replays that we took. You can also do it.

Oh my!

Yeah, so you can see the output.

Wow!

Yeah. So this is our monitor PC, like small monitor for the DOP who is cutting all the. So this is the monitor wall.

Okay.

We have all the camera feeds, all the feeds over here.

Ah.

This is our monitor.

So who is the DOP?

Who was the Abhishek? He just went off.

अच्छा अभिषेक है नॉट हियर। Yeah.

So this is our vision mixture. Through this we switch and control all the cameras. We switch it over here to our director PC. This is our director PCs.

Director is, let's go. Oh, Samay bhai.

He's a technical technical producer.

अभी ये पूरा black है। हाँ। Usually looks like this.

So every single feed is every feed is here. Yes. Exactly. And if anything goes down, then you instantly get to know.

Instantly get to know.

ये ऐसे पाला हो गया ना पूरा?

वैसे पाल दिया जाएगा मैं। Amazing. So there were how many cameras actually?

Thirty-four.

Thirty-four cameras.

Yeah. So if I give you the breakdown, for six boards. No, for six boards we have having two to eighteen cameras around the face cameras and six whiteboard cameras. Correct.

Yes. And then we have jib also to make the clock shots.

ऊपर वाला shot.

Yes.

Correct.

So we have totally.

So when we would tell you, okay, show me this board.

Yes. Then you would tell the cameraman to make a shot and then I'll cut it.

And then so it would take roughly 30 seconds.

Yes, correct. Rest is all automated, bro. Rest is all automated. This we have another monitor screen for the director. This is we have graphic screen. All the graphics are here. No, this is the yeah, this is the graphic VT machine.

VT machine.

Video transition.

So all the graphics displays all the VTs and music.

Oh yeah. You may see all the graphics are here.

So all these machines, yes. Where is the live machine? कि जो जा रहा है, what is going live?

From here.

From here.

From this is the PGM.

PGM.

This is the PGM.

Yeah, this one. This one you may see. So basically, this is the PGM.

People send from different places and then it goes live here.

Yes, correct.

Wow.

So we have a switcher there. So we take all 34 cameras feeds into this, the graphic feed, the replay feed, and everything—the boards, the mixer, the audio—and then we mix it and make a final PGM of this.

Amazing. We have Gaurav here. Gaurav, आपको कैसा लगा इनका काम? I'm just doing a video on the work done by this entire eight bit team. बराबर eight bit, right?

Yes sir. They're an incredible team. Fantastically enthusiastic, very agile, willing to make changes, learn. They get feedback from me. They get feedback from you. They get feedback from Tanya. They get feedback from our users and. Every day was a different broadcast because they kept adding and adding and adding to the point that I stopped knowing what to expect. Today's finale, as you've seen, I hadn't seen any of it, and they did a phenomenal job. So thank you guys so much. Oh, you are a lot.

Thank you. Okay, so over.

So this is our English desk. English desk. So okay. So this is where we are having two desks. One is English. I told you that day, and one is English.

This is पीछे जो English है। English.

Yup, yup.

Wait. So यहाँ पे से the director. Okay.

This is our API machine. What does that mean? So all the automated feed that you get, like you are you are switching at your PC and we are giving the feed on the stream. This is all through our API.

Oh, so basically changing the board. Yes, yes, yes. The camera. Yes, yes. भाई ये आपने कुछ software develop किया?

Yeah, from our team. So there is a guy called Subversion who did it. Wow!

Crazy! That was very helpful. Yes. We didn't have to call a camera every time.

So this is our English feed. Another monitor wall for English. All the graphics are here on on our buttons.

अच्छा ये English feed which is going on Chess 24.

Yes, Chess 24 and GCL page as well. Okay. Yup. So this is our ClearComms again. So all the so the calls that we are getting from all from ClearComms. So you can see there are multiple buttons for director, for RF. For everything there is the button. So what does this mean? So once I will press the button, you will get my command. If I will unmute, so this is like a command to the— I press this button.

Oh yeah, yeah, comms, comms. Basically I have to talk to cameramen, you audio guy, cameraman, everybody. I press this one button and everybody can hear me.

Yes, that's why when you were sometimes talking to someone, I could hear. Like Arohi, you will speak to, I could hear it.

Correct. Then we have our audio mixer for English desk. This is clearly for the English desk. This is not shared for the Hinglish. This is the Hinglish audio mixer, the main audio mixer. Through this we are sending sound on the halls, on the stream. All the music happens over there. So you can see this is the monitor studio, like monitor music. This is our graphics screen. What will go live on the LED? This we will select so you can see.

Oh, LED में क्या जाता है? जैसे when the winning team came.

Yes. This is scenic PCs. See the scenes, all the scenes. Wow. So this is Resolume that is controlled by us. We give the trigger and that is played on the screen. Wow. Yeah. And the six boards go on live. So again we have the six boards, six board stream that that are light from here like all the dedicated six boards. Yes. Your YouTube page. Yes, yes, yes. With the board. Yes. You want to see something? Yes. Come here.

Bye. What is this?

Oh my God!

Cameras, everything we put here. Bye. इसमें से अगर कुछ बिगड़ जाएगा, you would not even know.

No, no. We already know. So basically we make a sheet like input, output. You can see there are multiple inputs, multiple outputs. Like कुछ भी खराब होता है, one thing we know what इस multi view में हम देखते हैं कैमरा six खराब हुआ तो हम sheet में देखेंगे कौन से input में लगा था और कौन सा output में वो लगा है। तो हम उसमें switch कर लेते हैं automatically. Crazy भाई। This is our CCO control guy who controls the color correction and the focus of the cameras. So this is all the cameras, all the inputs, all the outputs हैं। Beautiful। Guys you have how many member team? So currently we are working forty five people right now in the 45, 45, 55. Sorry, 55.

55 people work for this broadcast. Yes, yes. Wow, incredible! And so basically, ये जो पूरा experience था for you chess में first time. I'm sure Samayva has done chess many times, but for 8-bit it was first time for chess. How did you feel? Is it easier than gaming or is it tougher?

So it is not like it is interesting than gaming. Like Gaming is also interesting. It's our forte, but chess is very interesting. What we thought and the rules that we learnt, and it's like we are fabulous. Like we are very much keen to do more events in chess. Rest, Samay is there for assisting us every time. Yep. And he's the guy, and we are coming up. He's the technical producer. Every wire who is routing over here is done by him and his team called Muzamil. Like another guy called Muzamil, and just we were just seeing what is going around.

And just again, Sagar, I want to take the camera and ask you.

How like how how much you like it?

Bye, I really loved it. I thought the entire quality of the stream was upgrading every single stream. पहले दिन पे जब थोड़ा up down हुआ तो I thought oh no again ऐसा फिर से. But actually day two, day three we kept improving and it was phenomenal. I think there are so many things that were great and I'm I think अगर हम और करते हैं कवर इवेंट, then I think this level of broadcast can reach where people can start looking at chess like how they look at cricket. So, क्योंकि सच्चा बेंचमार्क, like बेंचमार्क सेट हुआ है। हाँ, I think so. I think it was really well done.

It was done with lot of effort. So, thank you. Thank you.