a strange bargain

Say a mad scientist (or if u are religious feel free to subsitute the devil) offered you a deal....you could gain one rating point strength to your chess game in exchange for your life being shorten by one day....

A) would you accept the deal

B) if so for how many points/days?

like ur OTB rating?

I would go for just one day, because that way I c

A tempting offer but I'd pass.  As much as I would like to be a better player, it wouldn't mean much to be great without the struggle of getting there. 

It's like winning on time.  Sure it's nice to get the win, but doesn't feel nearly as great as checkmating your opponent. 

and you die earlier. It would be great to lengthen your life like 1000 days for 1000 pts and then being obviously stronger than that quickly gain them back and repeat

Don't even repeat. Once you have gotten to your normal rating again, just buy back 1k points.

To be clear it is not your offical rating which would change it would be your actual playing strength.

I would attempt to sell him my ratings points

I'm not seeing enough love for this, it's right up my joke alley. ^^

Now, there are many questions that need answering. The obvious thing is to get the easy improvement yourself (say up to a rating of 2000) and then take up the offer. But does playing strength linearly relate to rating? And what does playing strength mean? Does it make you closer to a GM where your understanding, approach and constant learning of the game is that much deeper and effective? I wouldn't want to become a good player only to be surpassed bcause of the constant accumulation of knowledge and my brain still being thick enough to take it all in.

Since others have mentioned the economics factor, do you buy/sell points at the same rate? How does inflation affect this? Any interest you can make a profit of?

On another note, is it possible that Tal realised he was going out so he used this as a final booster to beat Kasparov in the 90s? Even though longetivity is important to enjoy the rewards of a successful career, trolling the world hard one last time before the end is very memorable. 

What i was proposing was a one time,one way deal where you would gain in playing strength in exchange for a certain amount of days of your life being forfeited. There would have to be a maxium amount (say the strength of a 2700 player) and you would still have to win in tournaments in order to raise your rating. For example say a 1500 player exchanged  2oo days of his life then his playing strength would suddenly be equal of a 17oo player. Would it be worth it? (And no you can't sell your playing strength back to gain extra life.)

Then no. Not because it's a one-time thing, but because in my opinion the reward (being good at chess, however many days I sacrifice to boost my strength even up to 2700) is not worth the cost of the days lost in my life. Better things to do with it.

In a strange way that is what players are doing when they spend their day studying chess. Those many hours which are spent hunched over a chess book and board could be spent on better things....

The many hours i have spent hunched over a chessbook/board have been very enjoyable for me. Lately i spend more time studying chess than playing it in fact im barely playing at all. Im having more fun learning than playing. 

2700 is better than Judit Polgar and close to Anand. From my current chess.com rating I'd sacrifice something like 1300 days, that's about three and a half years.  You can have ages 75 to 78, no problem.  I'd actually rather pay more and get to be #1.

Most important, it would have to be an exclusive deal.  I don't want to pay the price and then find out that dozens of annoying ten-year-old trolls from this bulletin board have done the same thing and want to claim my title.