points in a tournament

Just a question....When you win a tournament and you get points

just what do you or can you do with these points??

As far as I know - ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. It's one of the most useless features on this site.

Tournament points allow you to can compare your success / activity to other tournament players.  http://www.chess.com/tournaments/leaderboard.html

They appear to be messed up a little ...

	Name	# Tournaments	Points
#1	AWARDCHESS (1758)	47	6,346
#2	solitaru (2003)	32	4,189
#3	AlekseyP (2160)	45	3,455
#4	haddad56 (1967)	2	2,372
#5	filithekid (1544)	37	2,129

... but you can still tell who are the active tournament players.

They appear to be messed up a little ...

Here's "All Time":

http://www.chess.com/tournaments/leaderboard.html?view_type=total

Thanks for the comments....Guess it would be cool to cash them in at the chess

store for books or whatever after oh  you hit over a thosand points or whatever number this site wants to use...just my opinion.

Don't go into business. Bankruptcy looms.

Businesses award redeemable points when you purchase from them. For example you spend a thousand dollars and you redeem your points for ten dollars of product or service.

In terms of chess.com, something like this. Purchase 10 years of Diamond membership for one month free.

How about 1 month free for winning a tourney?

It might be difficult to find people willing to pay their share of the $1000 fee for a chance to win a free month of membership.

Well... I still think  its useless.because you still barely get anything.real money would be cool