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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.

There is no room for gallantry in chess. Irving Chernev
It’s always better to sacrifice your opponent’s men Savielly Tartakower
Kasparov doesn’t care about chess, but only about himself and his political goals Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2015
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents. Yury Balashov
Thank the stars that I have been banned by FIDE so it is very clear I have nothing to do with this mess… Garry Kasparov
2015

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