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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by enneff on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:16PM (#18557531)
I think you misunderstand how the prize money is allocated. They both got 400k for competing, and the winner would take 200k. Since they went to tiebreaks the winner only got 150k while the loser gets 50k. So in this sense Magnus didn’t really split much of the prize with Caruana.
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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by gpm on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:28PM (#18557568)
They both get paid 400k for competing. That's payment, and maybe a prize for reaching the championship, but not a prize for the winner of the championship, so I ignore it.

The winner gets 200k in prize money. In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k. That is to say the winner gets 100k, and they split 100k, which is half the prize, which is what I said.

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by enneff on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:28PM (#18557815)
My apologies, I misread your original comment.

In any case, Carlsen said he wasn't aware of the prize money difference after reaching tie breakers, so it probably didn't factor into his decision making.

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by chasontherobot on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:19PM (#18558071)
> In the case of a tie the winner gets 150k, the loser gets 50k.

this literally makes no sense. In a tie, there is no winner and no loser. There was a winner and loser in this case, so there was no tie. I don't know why you keep insisting there was.

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by gpm on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @11:45PM (#18558169)
Huh, that's why that comment is attracting downvotes...

That has to be the least charitable reading ever. Do you seriously need me to spell out "In the case of a tie after the 12 games under the regular time constraints" while defending my math?

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Re:Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess C... by Retra on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:15PM (#18557754)
Perhaps Carlson was just being generous to his opponent then. Surely a nefarious deed.
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