Author: KarinsDad
Date: 14:32:33 05/08/00
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On May 08, 2000 at 17:23:11, Frederic Friedel wrote: >On May 08, 2000 at 15:26:37, KarinsDad wrote: > >>On May 08, 2000 at 11:51:23, Frederic Friedel wrote: >> >>>Correct me if I'm wrong: >>> >>>1. The Dutch Championship 2000 has by far the highest prize money of any >>>national championship in the world. >> >> >>And your point? Is money everything to you? >> >> > >Does it read that way to you? No, but it was one of your reasons for why this was a good thing to do. > No, money is not everything to me. > >My point is that prize money is pretty important to professional chess players. Yes, that's true. But in this case (based on what Jeroem and others who are more intimately associated with the players in that country), money was not the main issue. The main issue was that the players were given no real voice in this decision and that money and politics were the reasons for that. Does highest prize fund and front page newspaper articles make up for antagonizing the players? KarinsDad :)
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