if you really want to play them...it's not hard. jump on icc with a girl's handle and flirt a little...you can play with at least 10 GMs who will offer you chess lessons and a free trip to Europe. Ehh...I hope I'm not telling too much.
What would you pay to play a GM in an OTB Tournament?
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Sep 11, 2011
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#44
AfafBouardi wrote:
if you really want to play them...it's not hard. jump on icc with a girl's handle and flirt a little...you can play with at least 10 GMs who will offer you chess lessons and a free trip to Europe. Ehh...I hope I'm not telling too much.
Thus the ten months?
I would not pay anything. Well, maybe I'd pay $20 if the grandmaster took the time to explain the pro's and con's of moves from both sides, and answer why other moves were not good. I'd like to talk about my thought process as I'm thinking about my moves, and get feedback.
However, Fritz 8 does this for me, sort of. If I make a blunder, it tells me, and suggests I take the move back. It does not say why it is a blunder, so I have to figure it out. If I make a less than 3200 move that is not a blunder, it accepts my move, but in the notation of the game immediately states what move it thinks I should have made instead. So as I'm playing, I can look at what I should have done.
As for an 1800 player vs a 3200 player, I've played an online chess program that checkmates me in 40 moves, usually 2 pieces ahead in an endgame situation. I'm guessing it is expert strength or at least 1800. Fritz 8 at 3200 strength usually has me checkmated in 16 moves. My record is lasting 21 moves. I'm rated 1440. The 3200 strength rarely wins material off me. Often I don't even feel too threatened until it announces mate in 8, which I still don't see. I checkmate my 900 strength roommate just as fast.
The problem with an 1800 player is the explanations could just be tactical, which I already know but just don't spot consistently. A grandmaster could be pointing out my positional mystakes.
TheGrobe wrote:
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Oct 1, 2011
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Pay to play a GM ? Ridiculous ! I can embarrass my self completely, all by myself, for FREE !!!! LOL I would gladly pay to watch some chess "friends" play against a GM .....
Only if all profits were donated to a worthy charity. Then I'd pay up to £100.
By the time I'm good enough to justify taking up a GM's time with a chess match, I probably won't have to pay for it. Otherwise, the money would be better spent paying for lessons from the GM instead. Seems simple enough to me.
Chester_Biggens wrote:
Only if all profits were donated to a worthy charity. Then I'd pay up to £100.
What he said.
What would you pay to play a GM in an OTB Tournament?
The entry fee for the tournament, nothing more.
Nov 20, 2011
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#53
It's worth something for its novelty. But not much. It's not like there's anything particularly special about most GMs other than they can beat me 99.9999% of the time. It's not like in 1950 when there were 27 GMs in the world. Now there are about 1300, and a vast swarm of IMs. Things are not valuable, because they are plentiful.
Nov 20, 2011
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#54
What would you pay to play a World Champion? I would pay to play Karpov, Kasparov, Kramnik, Spassky, Anand. Not so much Ruslan P.
Nov 21, 2011
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#55
I would not pay to play, But for a Post Mortem, Maybe ten dollars at most, either that or buy them coffee and a doughnut
The rules are up. http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-play-a-gm.html
Tickets will be on sale online only starting April 15, 2012 and will go first come, first served.
The prices.
- GM = CA$150.00 http://www.xe.com/ucc/
- IM = CA$100.00
http://2012canadianopen.eventbrite.ca/
Edit 2012 01 20 - Took a look at the rules. "This game is not eligible towards a FIDE title norm."
Jan 19, 2012
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#57
Oh, they're in Canadian Dollars...which would be worth what in US$ or Euros? 
Maybe it should be paid in:
For what it's worth, the GMs where I live (Florida) are very pleasant and, often, the post mortems last as long as a paid lesson, and probably are more practical. I wouldn't pay extra to play them in a tournament and it is only rarely in the last 5-10 years that I've spent a few bucks for a simul.
Interesting. Doesn't this raise an ethical question if the GM gets a cut? A specific player is directly paying the GM to give that specific player a chance at a norm. That's a short step from paying the GM to give that player a norm by not playing well.
Clearly the titled players in such an arrangement have a conflict of interest. Their compensation is directly proportional to the popularity of this system. The popularity of the system will be directly proportional to how successful it is in producing norms.
Kingpatzer wrote:
Interesting. Doesn't this raise an ethical question if the GM gets a cut? A specific player is directly paying the GM to give that specific player a chance at a norm. That's a short step from paying the GM to give that player a norm by not playing well.
Clearly the titled players in such an arrangement have a conflict of interest. Their compensation is directly proportional to the popularity of this system. The popularity of the system will be directly proportional to how successful it is in producing norms.
Judging from previous responses, norms may be a major, perhaps the only, incentive to pay. There is no mention of whether FIDE has agreed to ratify any norms earned with these manipulated pairings.
Would it be worth anything if you got instruction trown in? how much would you pay then....