How is a $70,000 prize "so huge"?
Sinquefield cup
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The prize fund is $170k for 4 players.
You can see the link to the tournament in this post:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/st-louis-sinquefield-anyone-going
It is huge for me.
Love.
The World Championship winner gets somewhere around 1.5 mil $. That indeed is some money. But if you compare it to how much a football star earns, it's very little.
1.5 million dollar is so big money.
I was never aware that chess has so much of amounts.
Love.
70k for 6 rounds. Kramnik played 16 rounds for "only" 96k.
So, either 186k for World Cup or 36k for Sinquefield to be fair...
It seems Nakanura emerging as a winner. Gata Kamasky was a failure.
Prize money is so huge. If chess had a big boom in past also?