Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

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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