On Nov 19, 10:43 am, " wrote:

"As long as we have the goofy system of paying large class prizes we
will have sandbagging. Reward excellence and just maybe there will be
more of it," said an idealistic official, a voice in the wilderness.
--

GM Larry Evans in a chapter about sandbagging in THIS CRAZY WORLD OF
CHESS (page 143),

Coming from a grandmaster, this comes off as
greed. IMO, the top players are already getting
the lion's share of prize money, so grasping for
even more is selfish and worse, it ignores the
inevitable result: less participation overall by the
lowly masses, the peons GM Evans and his ilk
hold in disdain. If arrogance could be replaced
by a sweeter attitude, the result might be more
akin to the work of Zorro, and less like that seen
in a famous quote:

"...let them [the peons] eat cake."


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