Why is the U.S. Championships held at the same time as Norway Chess?

This seems like a strange decision to do so, as Norway Chess will be much more popular than the U.S championships.

The purpose of these tournaments is to draw attention, develop organizations, attract new people, and most importantly (for sustainability): make a profit.

If you want to do all of these things, why wouldn't the organizers schedule, or even re-schedule the tournament for another date, in view of this?

Whose idea and reasoning was it to schedule/ not reschedule these tournaments knowing the other was going to be occuring at the same time? This, on the surface, seems like a terrible decision to have these two tournaments occuring simulateneously.

How much do tournaments make from online viewing? Isn't online viewing free and offered by 3rd parties anyway?

Frankly speaking, the US Championship, having the benefit of the patronage of a multibillionaire, doesn't need to concern itself with profit.

Ah, I forgot that Sinquefield was in play.

We can do anything Norway can do, and better!

Because USCF is in cahoots with Carlsen. They're helping to increase Carlsen's chances of winning in Norway by keeping Caruana occupied elsewhere.

I heard they were more like "we don't want Hikaru to give you competition", and Magnus was hurt by that. 

8 posts, and still no comment on the bad grammar in the title! 

Indeed. What's "U.S"? You either put a period after both letters or neither!

Also, "championships" should be capitalized.

And yes, I realize that I'm not mentioning the big one.

What terrible grammar in the title! Shame on OP. SHAME I SAY!...... happy Robert? Lol

Alright guys, let's not be "grammar nazis" here. Besides, the OP title looks perfectly normal. What are you talking about that it looks "bad"? 

I don't know, not a certified GN myself.

It does read a little odd to me though. Is/are the US championship(s).

Since it's just one champion, I'd say keep the is and drop the s.

Also, please tell me your reasoning on how if they're scheduled at the same it hurts their profits. Not trying to be a dick, I'm curious.

I guess i have to retract on the profit statement. If sinquefield is funding these tournaments solely, then that suggests to me that its difficult to get funding. Thus, why would profit be a factor?

Anything taking place at the St. Louis Chess Club and involving Grandmaster players you can pretty much be sure has Rex Sinquefield's checkbook behind it.

I'm sad this question was never resolved. With Norway now being complete, and US being in the post-tourney blitz battle, I was hoping there would be some explanation. Do we know if any Americans were even invited to Norway? Maybe it was all an elaborate plot to spare feelings. "We know you didn't get invited, boys. But we'll pretend you just had a previous engagement so you couldn't attend." I'm kidding.

But I don't see St. Louis' reasoning behind moving it up. Sure, they're a non-profit. But Sinquefield is perhaps Chess' biggest fan. The move to April seemed like it hurt chess, in my opinion.

Neither hurt the other, as they were not directly competing with each other. They might have been running on many of the same days, but generally speaking Norway Chess's daily rounds were over (or close enough) before the rounds in St. Louis would get into the meat of the games.

And yes, Caruana and Nakamura at least would have been invited to Norway. You can bet your ass the organizers and sponsors of Norway Chess would have rather had two of the chess world's top stars over guys like Pavel Eljanov and Li Chao.

... and the strategy worked perfectly!