What does “points” mean

If you look on a profile it say points. What does that mean?

https://support.chess.com/customer/en/portal/articles/1444773-what-are-the-%22points%22-on-my-home-page-how-do-i-earn-them-

Oh-thanks!

Cheers mainframe, I always wondered about that

Some people might be unaware of this but, thanks for creating this topic

You get an achievement after you reach certain number of points.

Wow... strange 

But this encourages spamming...

nah, that's ok.

Yeah, after 10,000 point you get an achievement, I got it earlier

How to remove achievements ? We can remove trophies, right ? Why not achievements too ? 

Good idea

I don’t really like the Achievements. Maybe remove the Achievement Feature altogether? Do we really need it ?

I like it! It’s motivational 

It's kinda motivational to some/many people

Oh wow we said the same thing!

It helped me do this earlier today

Surprisingly I also got that same tactic today and obviously, I failed

Haha. It was my second guess. Re1

Thanks, I was breaking my head in with this problem, I thought it was points from the tournament.