http://millionairechess.com/
http://www.uschess.org/content/view/12459/735
Entry Fee:
Probably too steep for me.
T(HE)Y might get zero entrants
I admit this is a little steep, but honestly when would you ever get the chance to play for these kind of prizes. I'm currently rated 1406 so I would be playing in the U1600 section which has a 1st place prize of $40,000!! I believe that the chess world has been desperately waiting for an opportunity like this and I will definitely be registering and showing my support. Congrats to Maurice Ashley for putting this tourney together.
Is Ivanov playing?
I'm pretty sure Maurice will not let him play.
1,000$ for a chess lottery ticket? maybe itll work since its vegas.
maybe ill get a 1000 fide rating so i can play in the rated 1000 category with 8000$ 1st place prize and ill win since im probably rated 1700 fide (dont have a fide rating yet, but compared to chess.com rating), but there will be plenty of people doing that so it wont such an easy win after all, and if u are not using this cheating strategy in the tournament then you have 0 chance of winning a prize so say goodbye to 1 grand. When the stakes get high like this people cheat.. sorry
Yeah I'd expect even the lower categories will be expert chess.
I wonder if this even will attract alot of super strong GM's...
C'mon, $100,000!
But If you have no money, like me, $1000 is too much to risk for the CHANCE of a couple thousand.
This tournament will be super intense, I'm sure. Even a draw might get some people screaming for an hour. Half a point less could mean the difference between $10,000, and nothing. O_O
$100k you would think would attract Super GMs. Lower GMs would surely have little chance to win the top prizes but perhaps they might consider it worthwhile to play some top players.
@Duck29 Yeah people will probably try to cheat but they did take a lot of preventive measures against possible cheating. And you might be a 1500 player. Just because you're 1806 here doesn't mean that your official rating is anywhere close to that.
@Duck29 Yeah people will probably try to cheat but they did take a lot of preventive measures against possible cheating. And you might be a 1500 player. Just because you're 1806 here doesn't mean that your official rating is anywhere close to that.
Not to brag, my USCF is actually higher than my rating on here...
Chess.com ratings and USCF ratings are commpletely different things, it's true.
Seems like a lot of people are concerned about the entry fee. The structure is probably not attractive for those who will have to play in the open section, but for every one else this is extremely the chance of a lifetime. An average club player would never have an opportunity to compete against players of his level only, in a tournament that pays $40,000 for first prize! I see this more as an opportunity for an average chess player to be able to play chess for a living. We need more tournaments like this with bigger prize structures.
Lets see some of the winning games. I think an average club player has next to no chance of playing someone of his level only.
Lets see some of the winning games. I think an average club player has next to no chance of playing someone of his level only.
Obviously players like me, will be studying all year long and will most likely play slightly above their strength. If this tourney turns out to be an annual thing, then in the future this will not matter. They take whatever your highest rating for the year was and they use that to make the pairings. If you played extremely well the first time, your rating will obviously show it and you won't be able to play that section again so I don't see it as that big of an issue. The question really is whether you support chess at this magnitude or not.
The HB Global Event was a great tournament and this is just another step forward in chess.
@Duck29 Yeah people will probably try to cheat but they did take a lot of preventive measures against possible cheating. And you might be a 1500 player. Just because you're 1806 here doesn't mean that your official rating is anywhere close to that.
i might be a 1500 (fide, uscf) player but i doubt it, i wasnt comparing it to my online rating i was comparing it to my blitz which is from what ive seen is on average 100-200 points less than a persons fide rating, for proof check live chess and youll see that the titled players blitz ratings are usually around 2000-2100.
so the odds are in my favor that im at least 1700, but yeah 1400 is possible also.
how are they gonna prevent a 2000 player from deflating his rating to 1400 and entering the 1400-level tournament, is that even considered cheating, can you be expelled from a tournament from that, and how are they supposed to know if you got lucky and won a few a high rated games and then your luck ran out and you sunk to 1400 or if you purposefully played bad , what if you purposefully played bad from the first time you played a fide rated game, what kind of "measures" are they supposed to make to prevent this?
They prevent that by taking your highest rating from Dec 2013 to the start of the tournament. If you are unrated are have only a provisional rating then you will only be allowed to enter the Open section.
Lets see some of the winning games. I think an average club player has next to no chance of playing someone of his level only.
I agree. I am USCF class 'B', but if I entered I would expect, somehow, to be playing someone a couple classes above me at least. Some dark horse who spends the entire year away from tounraments but training like a mad dog.
However, if it was a local tournament...I dont know, I might try anyway.
Hopefully this will get some publicity, unfortunately its not as easy to understand as poker for the non playing public.
And yes,,,there will be entrants of course! For example, suppose Nakamura walks up to you in a bar and says "Well, I would enter, but I dont have the 1g I need". "Well, don't worry Naka, I will spot you the cash, in return for 10% of any prizes you earn."
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