Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:12:18 04/04/03
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On April 04, 2003 at 13:41:03, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >Probably you overestimate how much money a chess player makes. Had Kamsky not >retired, he could be easily "earning" with his enourmous talent and discipline >at least one million dollars a year, no doubt. >But he can not keep all that money, he needs to pay the seconds (which are not >cheap), he has to pay taxes, for sure there are other expenses related with the >work as a top chessplayer of which we are not fully aware. And of top of that, >his father did not work, Gata had to support him financially. >José. He has to do all of these things in either profession. He has to pay seconds or nurses, taxes, and other expenses, and support his father. Maybe nurses are cheaper than seconds, but as a doctor he would also have less money to pay them.
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