I never quite understood the whole thing and what motivated these
people. But it worked to my advantage when I discovered all I
had to do was offer them 5 dollars and suddenly they came alive.
Matthias Wuellenweber (the boss of ChessBase) gave the following defintion
of a GM:
A GM is a very intelligent person which is unable to do some regular work.
So your alternative, putting the same effort into a regular work and earning
the same or more money does not really exists. I think its not really the
money, but the gambling for money which is exiting.
As I told before I organized with Nimzo a jackpot bltiz system. When the
jackpot reached 500 ATS (50 $) there was a queue of GMs who wanted to play.
This was during the tournament and they had their own games running. They
did not care about their own games anymore, the only wanted the jackpot.
They are gambling-junkies. A lot of German GMs have now practically stopped
serious chess and play on internet poker.
Chrilly
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