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2024 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Championships: Official Discussion Thread

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charan_123rty

Hi I'm from india

charan_123rty

Is there any tournament going on online

Cornfed
SymphonicKnight wrote:
Cornfed wrote:
SymphonicKnight wrote:

If $40 per point were awarded in R1, we are talking about roughly $128,000 given out total ($40*~25).....

....While a pipedream, it seems that one would need at least a $2,000,000 Prize Fund to make this equitable for the majority of the field.

Oh, it's a great idea, but not one needed for such a large tourney. Where the idea shines is in these Super GM tourneys where often the latter games are largely meaningless. Giving $$ for people to fight for all the way through the tournament is what makes it desirable.

Also...you don't award a set $$ per each game won, you do it at the end of the tournament by taking the total prize fund and dividing the bulk of it out (say 75%) by wins. You still keep the 25% for place prizes, so no one goes home empty handed. Heck...they are often given appearance fees anyway!

I have indeed also previously posited the idea of a 50/50 division in the way you posit a 75/25 division, but I posited that in the idea of a smaller supertournament, with 50% of prizes awarded by place, and 50% allotted by win fraction... e.g. say there is $100,000 available for each, which in a 10 player tournament with 25 total wins would mean $4,000 for each win, the winner then receiving $20,000 for an exhibitive +5=3-1 result (in addition, for example, to the $40,000 for outright 1st (meaning $60,000 total), while the 2nd might then receive for a +3=5-2 result a $25,000 second place prize plus the 3(4,000) $12,000 point/win prize, so roughly $37,000)).

But I believe that you are correct in saying that, in the 256 player super-KO proposed, a 75/25 ration might be better.

I'm really not even saying a 256 Super KO....that's just a lot of people, I'm really talking mostly about GM Round Robin's, not KO's. Some people complain about standard chess being 'boring'....but everyone something tangible to fight for in every game...every round - first to last - that would make for exciting games.

mwesigwadennis002

Hey am new here

ChessAGC_YT
SymphonicKnight wrote:

Only US kids, or Uzbeki kids, could have afforded most recent tournaments. But e.g. Lazavik? How does he get there?

no.

kusayqazplm
DimitriGelenovsky yazdı:

Thought Gukesh waz on the list 2 weeks ago ??

It would be strange for Gukesh and Ding to "avoid" playing bbbb b..ut fff...FIDE are kkk ...known for ant ... ttt ... antics ... to miss out playing in the "rumble in the jungle" is strange ... Niemann is there ... so he's not "running for the woods" and he would have to face Carlson and Nakamura if he's going to get 1st,2nd,or 3rd ... it shows character

ChessAGC_YT

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