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At the highest level the lowest was probably ₤5 for Morphy for his match against Harrwitz and Anderssen both in 1858 and $5,000,000 sponsored by FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for the World Championship Tournament organised in 1997.

My chess method is without formulas, without orthodox thinking. I always explain that chess is an art and that there are no definite judgments. Lev Polugaevsky
1990 NIC
I still think people can learn at any age – I’m actually sure about that. It’s just that the ceiling is lower for how far you want to go. Magnus Carlsen
2016
Chess…gives students an opportunity to think at a different level. Dr. Chad Witherspoon
2014
Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966
Karpov is the official World Champion, but I’m not sure what that really means. Jan Timman
1993

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