At what point you can call yourself a chess player?

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🧐 chess player, as a title? or as an award given to you in OTB or online arena tournaments, as for any other titles, my opinion on this is:

👉"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."👈

😌 To me, that shows that the "chess player title" does not honor the person, as the title is only worth what everyone has put into them. Thus, I would say the people honor the title, by being worthy of them. While the title may have requirements to attain it (and help in the prevention of dilution of the honor), it is only a reflection of what the recipients of the title have done.

😌 Being worthy of a title, to me, is far more valuable than the actual title. In my heart, with or without the title, I know that I was worthy. The title is the icing on the cake, as it were. The honor exists more for other people, so that they know what I have earned. Becoming someone worthy of the title is far more valuable than the title itself.

☝️😏 Now I don’t want this to turn into some kind of title-chase, where you set your sights on certain titles or awards solely for the purpose of attaining them. The idea is to become someone worthy of the title, then if you get noticed and win it, so much the better. Again, the journey is far more important than the destination.

Has anyone else ever had a dream of chess position?

When you find a brilliant move in your dreams, while asleep.

2300 FIDE is when chess players are

I think a chess player is a person who know to play chess properly only with no or a few mistakes.

When u like playing chess. Otherwise u just “can play chess.” Activity over skill. A chess player plays chess. Don't have to be good at it. 

Everyone who plays chess is a chess player. Some are better than others, but all are chess players.

If you know the basic rules and principles of chess, then you are a chess player. Sure, the gap in skill is huge, but you don't need to meet a certain rating quota to be a chess player. 

I became a chess player when my OTB rating crossed 1800. Before that I was a woodpusher.

Magnus, but not Nepo?