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On November 24 2013 14:40 slowbacontron wrote:
There are tons! chessbase.com (chess news), chessgames.com (probably the biggest database of games? Along with many other features), and chess.com (chess community and other features) are just a few websites with multitudes of information.
I don't know about televised or streamed, though, hopefully someone else can help out.
Chessgames.com is the largest freely available online database, but not anywhere near the largest database in general. They advertise some 700k games, but Chessbase Online claims 6.4 million.
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just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ?
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On November 24 2013 22:29 oGoZenob wrote:
just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ?
US $2.55 million
60% for the winner and 40% for the loser
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One thing I find interesting is to chronologically go over the (winning) games of one of the past world champions. I thought that capablanca played very beautiful chess, for instance. You can find his games on chessgames.com .
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On November 24 2013 22:31 thOr6136 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2013 22:29 oGoZenob wrote:
just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ? US $2.55 million 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser
Wikipedia says ~600k $.
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On November 24 2013 23:50 Abominous wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2013 22:31 thOr6136 wrote:On November 24 2013 22:29 oGoZenob wrote:
just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ? US $2.55 million 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser Wikipedia says ~600k $.
That was for the candidates tournament in March.
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On November 24 2013 22:31 thOr6136 wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2013 22:29 oGoZenob wrote:
just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ? US $2.55 million 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser
Quite a big % for the loser :O
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On November 25 2013 01:16 TheRealArtemis wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2013 22:31 thOr6136 wrote:On November 24 2013 22:29 oGoZenob wrote:
just out of curiosity, how much was the prize pool ? US $2.55 million 60% for the winner and 40% for the loser Quite a big % for the loser :O
Well, the winner qualifies for the next final, that guarantees a lot more money.
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Candidates tournament 2014:
Poll: Who will be Carlsen's next challenger?Vladimir Kramnik (25) 44% Levon Aronian (23) 40% Viswanathan Anand (4) 7% Sergey Karjakin (2) 4% Dmitry Andreikin (1) 2% Veselin Topalov (1) 2% Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (1) 2% Peter Svidler (0) 0% 57 total votes Your vote: Who will be Carlsen's next challenger? (Vote): Viswanathan Anand
(Vote): Vladimir Kramnik
(Vote): Dmitry Andreikin
(Vote): Veselin Topalov
(Vote): Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
(Vote): Levon Aronian
(Vote): Sergey Karjakin
(Vote): Peter Svidler
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Do you think anand will try again?
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Even if he does, I don't think he has any shot of making it through the candidates. He's still an excellent match player who's very hard to beat, but in a tournament like the candidates you actually need to win games.
Aronian vs Carlsen would be an extremely fun match, but Aronian's really inconsistent. If he manages to play his best he can definitely has a chance vs Carlsen though. The same goes for Karjakin. Kramnik's still a beast and this is probably his last shot at becoming WC again. My darkhose pick would be Andreikin. The guy's really good, hell, he's beaten Kramnik like 3 times recently. I don't think the others have a real shot, but who knows. Svidler already surprised me at the last candidates.
It's a shame we won't have Caruana or Naka there, they really belong there. Next year I hope.
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Karjakin is kind of slumping recently but hopefully he returns to form. I think Andreikin is still pretty much swimming in the sea with all the other 2700s.
I'd say Aronian or Caruana has a good chance to challenge in the future.
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On November 24 2013 22:26 TheBB wrote:Show nested quote +On November 24 2013 14:40 slowbacontron wrote:
There are tons! chessbase.com (chess news), chessgames.com (probably the biggest database of games? Along with many other features), and chess.com (chess community and other features) are just a few websites with multitudes of information.
I don't know about televised or streamed, though, hopefully someone else can help out. Chessgames.com is the largest freely available online database, but not anywhere near the largest database in general. They advertise some 700k games, but Chessbase Online claims 6.4 million.
:O what the balloons, that's insane. Where do they get all those games from?
As for next challenger, I'd be sad if Karjakin doesn't become one, at least eventually. He's been toted as a future WCC for a long time.
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Karjakin did just won the Norway Chess Tournament where he won his first 4 games in a row
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Oh, cool! But that was back in May :o I know time in chess doesn't move at warp speed like it does in SC2 
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What's the equivalent of TL for chess?
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I hope one of the old world champions becomes the next challenger, it would be fun to see how they fare against Carlsen as long as they are still (almost) at the top of their ability.
So I am rooting for Kramnik or Topalov, but to win the Candidates tournament, they have to be in very good shape.
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People are already rooting for Carlsen to lose his title? I'm not one of them; I hope he remains champion for at least twenty years 
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