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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.

I think I am certainly more talented than many other people. But I don’t know what talent consists of. Magnus Carlsen
2014
Vugar Gashimov deserves to be immortalized! Mahir Mamedov
2014
When I see the Berlin defence, I am almost happy that I am not longer a top player! Nigel Short
2016
Chess should not become an obsession. Otherwise there’s a danger that you will slide off into a parallel world, that you lose your sense of reality, get lost in the infinite cosmos of the game. You become crazy. Magnus Carlsen
2010
I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middle-game! David Janowski

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