Chess is quite profitable, if players perform in the strongest tournaments and register victories.
Worldchess.com presents the revenues of chess players as of 2018. According to the webpage, 32 major international tournaments were held with a combined prize fund of EUR 4,865,066. There were 246 tournament days in total.
Magnus Carlsen, world’s number 1, was the top earner in 2018; his accumulative winnings totaled EUR 745,211. Fabiano Caruana was in close second place with EUR 719,476. Majority of the winnings came from the 2018 World Championship Match. Hikaru Nakamura is the third with EUR 229,609.
Levon Aronian earned EUR 159, 411 and appeared in the 7th place.
Aronian also falls behind Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Sergey Karjakin and Wenjun Ju.
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