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Originally Posted by goldaxe
Hey qjuice, I am also quite tempted by millionaire chess! I was slightly worried though that there would be many sharks sandbagging their rating in view of the large prizefund.
It sounds like calculation is the big thing you need to work on, and I highly recommend Aagaard's Excelling at Chess Calculation (easier) and then GM prep-Calculation (pretty hard). I once foolishly bought Dvoretsky's Analytical manual, but this one is just impossible and I think is for 2650's trying to make progress
Thanks for the recommendations, I'll check them out. I'm pretty interesting to see what strides I can make if I really do put in the effort.
As for the Millionaire Chess tournament, good luck if you do play. Only like 2 more weeks for early registration for 1k. After that the price goes up. I did find out that you can register early and you are still able to withdraw up to like 24-48hrs before the tournament. So if you are considering playing you should preregister now and just withdraw if you don't think you're in form.
I think you'll actually be in an interesting section. I can't imagine very many 2200-2350 players are going to enter the open so you might be fighting it out for the 5k, 10k, 20k, 40k U2350 prizes with about 10 people. GL if you do try.
Also, if anyone on here 2050 and up wants to get a game in let me know.