How much $$ will Caruana earn for playing for the U.S.?
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May 13, 2015
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Caruana is a U.S. citizen, and there are no reports that he received cash to switch federations. If Rex gave him cash, how would that make the other top American players feel? (Naka would move to Canada just to get lured back with cash.) No. The chess culture in the U.S. is strong enough to support top players. What's the difference if one flys from Italy to Siberia or from St. Louis to Siberia?
May 13, 2015
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OneArrow wrote:
Caruana is a U.S. citizen, and there are no reports that he received cash to switch federations. If Rex gave him cash, how would that make the other top American players feel? (Naka would move to Canada just to get lured back with cash.) No. The chess culture in the U.S. is strong enough to support top players. What's the difference if one flys from Italy to Siberia or from St. Louis to Siberia?
really, I have no problem in Caruana playing for the US as he is as much US citizen as Italian. But to deny it's related to a money offer is being out of the reality
May 13, 2015
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#6
Really? Any sportsman wants to win prices. He can do that joining the US team, he can't when he sticks to Italy.
May 13, 2015
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LoekBergman wrote:
Really? Any sportsman wants to win prices. He can do that joining the US team, he can't when he sticks to Italy.
when did we lose the romanticism?
They'll be critiziced whatever they do.
May 13, 2015
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#9
Romanticism?? It is a real joy to be part of a good and winning team. He wants to be competitive, now he can. Romanticism is just like money, not the real deal. You can not become one of the best chess players in the world because of the sheer beauty of chess (although it might help) nor can you become that good because you want to make a lot of money (it probably blocks a high performance).
May 13, 2015
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#10
I don't think Caurana was paid off- right now anyway. But I think it's pretty obvious Rex has been trying to get as many World Championship hopeful's as possible under the US banner with the hope that one year soon one of them will challenge for the World Championship and Rex will fork over an outrageous sum to host the match in St. Louis. Big payday whenever that happens, win or loss.
I think the next and future US championship tournaments will be seeing an increase in the prize fund too- with possibly 3 of the top 10 players in the world competing it'll become a reasonably strong/elite event.
Pdela is only trolling a bit.
Dozens of dollars.
May 13, 2015
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ShakenRook wrote:
I don't think Caurana was paid off- right now anyway. But I think it's pretty obvious Rex has been trying to get as many World Championship hopeful's as possible under the US banner with the hope that one year soon one of them will challenge for the World Championship and Rex will fork over an outrageous sum to host the match in St. Louis. Big payday whenever that happens, win or loss.
I think the next and future US championship tournaments will be seeing an increase in the prize fund too- with possibly 3 of the top 10 players in the world competing it'll become a reasonably strong/elite event.
Why not? He already received the offer some months ago:
"The secret effort currently underway involves trying to persuade Fabiano Caruana, the No. 2 player in the world, to switch to playing for the United States from Italy. Last September, while playing in an elite tournament in St. Louis, Mr. Caruana said he was approached and offered a large sum to switch federations. Mr. Caruana, who was born in Miami and has dual American and Italian citizenship, said he had turned down the offer, for now.
Mr. Caruana would not say who approached him, but the offer came after he won the Sinquefield Cup, obliterating an impressive field that included the world champion, Magnus Carlsen of Norway. The tournament is named for Rex Sinquefield, a retired financier active in Missouri politics who has become the primary benefactor of chess in the United States. Mr. Sinquefield provided the $315,000 prize fund for the event, as he also does for the United States Championship, which for seven consecutive years has been held at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis, which he financed and built."
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/11/sports/chasing-world-chess-title-us-recruits-from-abroad.html?_r=0
GreedyPawnEater wrote:
Only a retard would play for capitalist country.
Oh ahahaha heeheehee.
GreedyPawnEater wrote:
That's the only way a capitalist US can get a top 10 player. They bought(bribed) Japanese Nakamura and Philipino So, Russian Kamsky and so and so on. Never an American will reach top 10...
Hahahaha hohohoho hihihihi
May 13, 2015
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GreedyPawnEater wrote:
That's the only way a capitalist US can get a top 10 player. They bought(bribed) Japanese Nakamura and Philipino So, Russian Kamsky and so and so on. Never an American will reach top 10...
If it wasn't for those evil capitalists, North Korea would win everything.
TheronG12 wrote:
GreedyPawnEater wrote:
That's the only way a capitalist US can get a top 10 player. They bought(bribed) Japanese Nakamura and Philipino So, Russian Kamsky and so and so on. Never an American will reach top 10...
If it wasn't for those evil capitalists, North Korea would win everything.
Hahahahahaha! ROFLMAO. 
I wonder if people who play in the English Premier League play for whoever pays them the most. Nah, probably not.
May 13, 2015
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Socialpanda, it's possible but I think unlikely. He hasn't done much since then to encourage a repeated or higher offer, and why would he refuse it then only to turn around and accept it now? Seems unlikely to me.
GreedyPawnEater wrote:
That's the only way a capitalist US can get a top 10 player. They bought(bribed) Japanese Nakamura and Philipino So, Russian Kamsky and so and so on. Never an American will reach top 10...
Yup, they bribed a 2 year-old Nakamura to come to the US* in the hopes that he would take up, and be great at, the game of chess some day. They likewise bribed Kamsky to come to the US in the hopes that a few people in the US might give a sh*t about chess 25 years later.
*They also brided Nakamura's mother to move from the US to Japan then back to the US just so this could be done.
After Wesley So deci$$ion of playing for the U.S. here comes Caruana deci$$ion of moving from Italy federation to U.S. How much being from the US is valorated? I'm starting to feel quite American. How do these people get the green card that easy?