Sixteen of the world’s high chess gamers, together with India’s Arjun Erigaisi and Nihal Sarin converged in Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh to compete for his or her golf equipment as chess makes its debut on the Esports World Cup. After the primary day’s motion, 4 gamers have made the minimize for the quarter-finals: Levon Aronian (Group A), Erigaisi (Group B), Alireza Firouzja (Group C), and Magnus Carlsen (Group D).
In the meantime, there are different gamers who can be preventing for the remaining spots within the Losers Brackets on the Esports World Cup: from Group A, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Vladislav Artemiev, and Andrey Esipenko; Anish Giri, Nihal Sarin, and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in Group B; Javokhir Sindarov, Wei Yi, and Hikaru Nakamura in Group C; and Nodirbek Abdusattorov, Fabiano Caruana, and Jan-Krzysztof Duda in Group D.
There are prizes value $1.5 million on supply on the chess occasion on the Esports World Cup, what’s much more mindboggling is that the 4 gamers that end on the backside of the 16-player standings will take dwelling a mind-boggling $50,000. Which means that even when a participant loses each single sport on the occasion, they nonetheless take dwelling roughly Rs 43 lakh.
Magnus Carlsen performs in opposition to Nodirbek Abdusattorov within the Esports World Cup in Riyadh. (Screengrab through Esports World Cup YouTube)
That’s the quantity Divya Deshmukh gained for successful the FIDE Girls’s World Cup. Though it have to be famous that the World Cup is organised by the worldwide governing physique of chess, FIDE, which has different obligations like popularising the game at grassroots throughout 200+ nations. FIDE additionally bears the duty of organising world championships throughout age teams. In the meantime, the Esports World Cup is bankrolled by non-public entities and can be aided by the cash-rich kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which is internet hosting the occasion.
So what do gamers who end in different positions than the underside on the chess occasion within the ongoing Esports World Cup stand to realize?
The winner of the match stands to realize a whopping $2,50,000 or 1 / 4 of one million {dollars}. That’s roughly Rs 2.1 crore.
Right here’s the remainder of the prize cash breakdown:
2nd place: $1,90,000 (approx Rs 1.6 crore)
third place: $1,45,000 (approx Rs 1.2 crore)
4th place: $1,15,000 (approx Rs 1 crore)
fifth place (4 gamers): $85,000 (approx Rs 74 lakh)
ninth place (4 gamers): $65,000 (approx Rs 56 lakh)