Yeah if you get good at blitz you can hang out at the park and make three or five bucks a game!
Can you really make money off chess?
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every1lovesDOLPHINS wrote:
Yeah if you get good at blitz you can hang out at the park and make three or five bucks a game!
yeah but you will need a lot of those games to pay for things in life
mjm16 wrote:
every1lovesDOLPHINS wrote:
Yeah if you get good at blitz you can hang out at the park and make three or five bucks a game!
yeah but you will need a lot of those games to pay for things in life
Not if you live on the dole!
Aug 6, 2014
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every1lovesDOLPHINS wrote:
mjm16 wrote:
every1lovesDOLPHINS wrote:
Yeah if you get good at blitz you can hang out at the park and make three or five bucks a game!
yeah but you will need a lot of those games to pay for things in life
Not if you live on the dole!
... or in a dumpster.
Yeah stupid poor people living in dumpsters! HA HA HA!
Yo can make money writing books or articles about chess, teaching chess, winning tournament cash prizes, and possibly sponsorships or grants.
yes but you would need a lot and how many people except chess lovers would go for them?
You can be a coach
Aug 6, 2014
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koala08 wrote:
You can be a coach
Yep, I make a quite decent living teaching chess. I gave up teaching school because it's more fun and I make more money.
Thumbs up to the OP for not writing "off of chess."
Ok so you can make a living off chess huh
No, but you can make chess into money
Totally agree with aww-rats.
If you want to make a decent (or better!) living in chess, teach chess to kids.
Scholastic chess tends to be a fairly tightly-knit community. Your best way in would be to find the people who run scholastic programs in your area and talk to them. Start as an assistant and gain experience (and your own personal style and teaching methods, this is key), and you can start moving up the food chain.
What rating is needed? Well, the higher the better, but in the right circumstances 1400-1500 can be enough. The most important thing is not rating or title, but how well you interact with kids, parents, and school personnel.
Never forget: non-chess people don't care about ratings and titles. And school programs are run by non-chess people...
Andre_Harding wrote:
Totally agree with aww-rats.
If you want to make a decent (or better!) living in chess, teach chess to kids.
Scholastic chess tends to be a fairly tightly-knit community. Your best way in would be to find the people who run scholastic programs in your area and talk to them. Start as an assistant and gain experience (and your own personal style and teaching methods, this is key), and you can start moving up the food chain.
What rating is needed? Well, the higher the better, but in the right circumstances 1400-1500 can be enough. The most important thing is not rating or title, but how well you interact with kids, parents, and school personnel.
Never forget: non-chess people don't care about ratings and titles. And school programs are run by non-chess people...
That makes sense
mjm16 wrote:
Andre_Harding wrote:
Totally agree with aww-rats.
If you want to make a decent (or better!) living in chess, teach chess to kids.
Scholastic chess tends to be a fairly tightly-knit community. Your best way in would be to find the people who run scholastic programs in your area and talk to them. Start as an assistant and gain experience (and your own personal style and teaching methods, this is key), and you can start moving up the food chain.
What rating is needed? Well, the higher the better, but in the right circumstances 1400-1500 can be enough. The most important thing is not rating or title, but how well you interact with kids, parents, and school personnel.
Never forget: non-chess people don't care about ratings and titles. And school programs are run by non-chess people...
That makes sense
As much as women banishing the men to the moon!
Lol
Yeeah, most probably, but if you just really 'know 'the game.. Also, though you know it, u shud have some fame + pop too. then chess=$$
Aug 7, 2014
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I teach lessons full-time at my coaching website NextLevelChessCoaching.com and do good money-wise. Coaching is where all the money from chess can be made if you're not a top-level player. Combine this with occasionally making extra money from placing well in over-the-board tournaments. This allows me to live out on my own as a 21 year old which is pretty nice 
The reason i ask this is because, you know you see people who are chess masters traveling from tournament to tournament and they make money by winning different games and so but, does it help them live life in general like what about the people who want to have chess as a career?