Why are Chess Coaches So Expensive

There was no concession because the point about game design was never disputed.

Luck comes in the way it is played. Beginners should avoid blitz until they understand how to make purposeful moves and can see basic tactics or at least find a checkmate in one.

How many times did White miss a checkmate in one? https://www.chess.com/forum/view/game-analysis/how-beginners-play#comment-64754227

Would you call this a game of skill?

This example contrasts with the blitz play I seek. There skill determines the outcome unless there is a mouse slip.

Please try to read with just a little bit of comprehension for a change.

 I think "strawman" gives it more credibility than it deserves.

That's a fairly typical rate for coaches in some communities, but not for titled players trying to make a living coaching. That rate only screens out clients who are not serious. It does not provide an income to speak of.

I know of a large tutoring company looking for chess teachers. They pay $15 an hour.

I am sure that you are correct about exhausting part. I was simply trying to say that hourly wise, it is a solid paycheck even for USA. I am very aware that there are better paid jobs out there. As I've said, I am all for people having jobs that they enjoy, and I am all for it for them to be able to have a nice life out of it.

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not with the inflation

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The median rate hour rate in the US is $24 an hour, but that also includes insurance.  Including benefits, you're looking at $33.37 an hour as of 2020. 

And, like you pointed out, chess coaching is limited by when you can meet a student, while most adult work is 8 ~ 12 hours a day 4 ~ 5 days a week. 

This is the worst comparison... Chess is NOT a rich mans game, at all.

I think that it is cheaper sign as a paid member of chess.com.

Chess.com  gives you chess lessosn for the price of a diamond member. It is 3 USD (United States Dollars) per month.

To my contry, Brazil,  30 USD per class of 1 hour is expensive.

 

People don't need to buy e-boards to play chess, man. 

I mean we only need to buy a cheap board with cheap pieces, and we could play anywhere as long as people accepted the challenge. And some professionals could even play blindfold. We don't need that much money to play chess.

We don't even need a DGT board. Alekhine and Bogoljubow played blindfold in a cell, I've heard.

In my view, it is pretty cheap to play OTB chess, except having a simple chessboard there is no cost involved, and only one of the 2 people has to have it.

While I was still in my elementary school I played a lot of games, of course none of those were officially rated, but it is still chess.

My grandfather and my father taught me how to play, so I played a bunch of games with them. I played a lot of games with my brother, a lot of games with my classmates and other members of the family (I say brothers, in USA you would say cousins). As for my classmates, we even had our own version of Candidates tournament (we unofficially organized it) where the winner would play the best player from another class who was considered the best player in school. We even made some medals from ply wood.

If someone wanted to play, there were generally elderly people (some younger ones as well) in parks who always played for free.

In any case, I played tens of games back then, maybe even more than a hundred without paying a dime.

Now of course, it all depends on how popular chess is in a certain society. In Serbia, team sports are generally very popular, but as far as I've heard, chess is number 3 when it comes to how many people are playing chess for clubs, in tournaments and whatnot.

So generally, chess is easy and cheap to play unprofessionally.

If you want to play official tournaments, of course that stuff costs some money, but here it is not that bad, neither is costly to join a chess club. Coaches are not mandatory to improve as well, it is a bit more difficult, but you can improve yourself plenty without a coach. For instance since my return to chess last year I improved fine, and I have beaten at least one guy who is over 1 500 FIDE (I found his official profile), and I have beaten some people that are realistically stronger than him. 

Now for someone to become a GM for instance, that costs money, especially in the US because you have your own federation and not enough FIDE rated tournaments. But we are not talking about that, we are talking about how much it costs to play chess on any level.

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