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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.

Petrosian would never have beaten me if he had played like that in 1963. Mikhail Botvinnik
1966
As chess players, Kasparov and Karpov have exhausted themselves, the people began to forget them and they are trying to attract attention with their inadequate statements. Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
2010
First of all, I am a mother, and only then a chessplayer Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant
2009
What’s been bothering me is not that I haven’t won tournaments, but that I haven’t played very well. Magnus Carlsen
2017
Chess can be described as the movement of pieces eating one another. Marcel Duchamp

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