The total Nielsen rating points added up to 16.7.
The year before, those three networks saw their combined rating fall 2.2 rating points.
There are 24 super-grandmasters, with another 16 within 20 rating points of 2,700.
These shows might never come close to matching advertising dollars with rating points.
Gail Berman, the president of Fox Entertainment, said, "It exceeded our expectations by several rating points".
By being a home market this year, Boston gained 17 rating points (about 398,000 households) compared with 2001, while the New York market lost 3 rating points (219,000 homes) without the Giants in the game.
Carlsen is the world No1, Karjakin, even after gaining rating points in New York, is still only No6.
More painful for ABC is how badly "Frasier" beat "Millionaire" among young adult viewers, by 16.8 rating points to 5.4.
The Knicks' offensive rating (points per 100 possessions) is 104.3, 23rd in the league, according to Basketball-Reference.com.com
The Knicks' offensive rating (points per possession), which had been among the best in the league, has slipped to ninth.
That represented a record-setting jump (for any new series) of 1.74 rating points, or 53 percent.
