user9741: I am interested to know whether money based online chess tournament would succeed if all players are allowed to cheat.

user4362: This concept is called advanced chess or freestyle chess.
There used to be an advances chess tournament in Leon already in the late nineties. Nowadays it has reverted to a normal rapid tournament.
And there have been freestyle tournaments online (for money), first organised by chessbase and nowadays apparently continued by Infinity Chess. 

9741: <p>I am interested to know whether money based online chess tournament would succeed if all players are allowed to cheat.</p>
 4362: <p>This concept is called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Chess" rel="nofollow">advanced chess</a> or <a href="http://freestyle-chess.webs.com" rel="nofollow">freestyle chess</a>.</p>

<p>There used to be an advances chess tournament in Leon already in the late nineties. Nowadays it has reverted to a normal rapid tournament.</p>

<p>And there have been freestyle tournaments online (for money), first organised by chessbase and nowadays apparently continued by <a href="http://freestyle-chess.webs.com/infinitychess.htm" rel="nofollow">Infinity Chess</a>. </p>
