I'm just wondering, but where exactly are you rated 1900 rn...?
should i pursue chess as a professional career? do i have the potential to be great?
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But you are 1100 here
I mean anyone can be great if they try
Apr 30, 2024
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LordHunkyhair3 wrote:
I'm just wondering, but where exactly are you rated 1900 rn...?
lichess, i only play with friends here
Apr 30, 2024
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Tomato137 wrote:
But you are 1100 here
i am 1900 in lichess. i don't play in here
lichess ratings are several hundred points inflated compared to chess.com. You should play here and see what your rating is because lichess is ez
It is true, there's a rating fluctuation of a couple hundred points usually between chess.com and lichess
Apr 30, 2024
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Only the top 30 Grandmasters actually make a living from chess. It’s even harder to land a living from chess than to make it in professional sports.
Grandmasters often also start very young and train for hours per day since childhood.
Grandmasters often also start very young and train for hours per day since childhood.
Apr 30, 2024
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legendlegion15 wrote:
should i pursue chess as a professional career?
If you have to ask, the answer is no.
Apr 30, 2024
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Online ratings, especially in fast time controls, mean nothing. You need to play OTB classic time controls and get a FIDE rating, that's the only way to know how good you are.
Maybe you should listen to your father. Nost titled players struggle to make ends meet and they only win money in chess by teaching etc.
The only players who can earn comfortable money are the very top players, the Super GMs.
So you are going to have to study all your life to maybe get a Master or IM title, and even then, nobody will know your name, and your only recourse to funds from chess will be teaching kids at schools.
I used to work with a person in my country of origin who was a Fide Master with 2 IM norms and he had quit chess because he could not make ends meet from his skills, even though he was almost an IM. He ended up working on something completely unrelated to chess. And it's going to happen to you. Because let's face it you are not going to become a Super GM star.
Rating: 663, 1049.
How did I somehow know his rating was going to be something like this before looking....
Apr 30, 2024
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xor_eax_eax05 wrote:
Online ratings, especially in fast time controls, mean nothing. You need to play OTB classic time controls and get a FIDE rating, that's the only way to know how good you are.
Maybe you should listen to your father. Nost titled players struggle to make ends meet and they only win money in chess by teaching etc.
The only players who can earn comfortable money are the very top players, the Super GMs.
So you are going to have to study all your life to maybe get a Master or IM title, and even then, nobody will know your name, and your only recourse to funds from chess will be teaching kids at schools.
I used to work with a person in my country of origin who was a Fide Master with 2 IM norms and he had quit chess because he could not make ends meet from his skills, even though he was almost an IM. He ended up working on something completely unrelated to chess. And it's going to happen to you. Because let's face it you are not going to become a Super GM star.
i agree on this but my family is already quite rich. i play 15+10 rapid but i am better on even longer time controls and worser on fast time controls. so i am actually a classical player. i just thought like could it be? i mean if i can be a 2700 rated player potentially money isn't an issue my family can provide it.
Yes join an OTB club and start playing here on chess.com It doesn't hurt to try, anything is possible.
Apr 30, 2024
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You can hire onr of the coach here. I don't think you can reach 2000 on your own self study effort.
I reached 2000 on my own no coaching ....
Apr 30, 2024
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I am talking about OP. I know some can reach 2000. OP mentioned money isn't a problem
I don't know if you "have the potential". But one thing I know for sure, is that having a potential is a widely over rated idea.
The seed of a flower, at all times has the potential to become a flower. Yet, will never become a flower if dropped in a desert where it never rains. Still holds the potential, but a potential that will never become more than a potential.
And many, so many other factors can be in between a potential to a thing, and the thing itself.
A fast increase of ratings below 2200 means nothing much in my opinion. And here a central question: does one have got the means to sustain their life while studying chess like 8 hours a day? And even if so, it might be not enough.
All in all, what are the odds in the end to become a professional chess player that does not live close (at best) to the level of poverty? Slim.
That's my answer to the question.
so hello guys. since my childhood i was good at chess always but i really played occasionally. like i would defeat everyone in class and have hard fights with my dad but it was kinda once in 3 month think. when i was 12 i played chess at a club and took lessons and go to tournaments but because of my adhd i stopped playing and i was quite bad actually. so i started my meds when i was 14 and started playing occasionally like once a month.
but one and a half months ago i started playing chess again. i learned a bit opening and endgame and watched videos. in this 45 days i improved from 1720 to 1900. i played a lot of games so i wasn't underrated really. i got from struggling in 1700s to 1903 really fast.
so i think i am improving kinda fast actually. when i review my opponents they really like move 100 elos per year or something. so is it possible for me to be really talented at chess? like improving 200 elos in 45 days seems very fast for me. should i maybe take lessons or go to a otb club? or is my improvement is just average? can somebody help me?