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While I'm far from being a professional at standard chess,I'm curious to know whether you can make decent money with it
-Assuming you are not titled,but have a high rating(+2500),if I offer chess lessons,will I get approached by a fair number of students?
-What about chess books? Is it worth spending time on writing a digital chess book? Are they expected to have enough sales?
-Will lowering the prices compensate for me not being titled?
-Please answer the questions from your standpoint

While I'm far from being a professional at standard chess,I'm curious to know whether you can make decent money with it -Assuming you are not titled,but have a high rating(+2500),if I offer chess lessons,will I get approached by a fair number of students? -What about chess books? Is it worth spending time on writing a digital chess book? Are they expected to have enough sales? -Will lowering the prices compensate for me not being titled? -Please answer the questions from your standpoint

peppie23

#2

In the Netherlands there are 100 chess professionals. 98 of them are teaching chess and only 2 are living from playing chess only (Van Foreest and Giri). There are professional teachers rated 2200 fide and even lower.

Gravija

#3

If you are good at carpentry, you can make chess boards & pieces then sell them.

Gravija

#4

Then you can offer your teaching to the buyers.

BinaryBishop

#5

You can stream, I saw 800 elo that just curses and make random move have more viewers than a 2500 that makes educational content so yeah

let_me_di3

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#6

Seems not quite possible to get money with chess PURELY (given you're not a IM/GM already), still a good hobby though. Maybe they will have different impact on your life and simply get place in your heart instead.

KurokosEchec

#7

There's a saying "If you want to make a small fortune playing chess start off with a large fortune."

TimeTraveller1

#8

@Leonardosoco said in #1:

While I'm far from being a professional at standard chess,I'm curious to know whether you can make decent money with it
-Assuming you are not titled,but have a high rating(+2500),if I offer chess lessons,will I get approached by a fair number of students?
-What about chess books? Is it worth spending time on writing a digital chess book? Are they expected to have enough sales?
-Will lowering the prices compensate for me not being titled?
-Please answer the questions from your standpoint
I think some ways to earn could be

Start streaming,post videos on YouTube (that's a good way to earn if your channel gets big but that's difficult)
You can give chess lessons but not sure that you will get good number of students

@Leonardosoco said in #1: > While I'm far from being a professional at standard chess,I'm curious to know whether you can make decent money with it > -Assuming you are not titled,but have a high rating(+2500),if I offer chess lessons,will I get approached by a fair number of students? > -What about chess books? Is it worth spending time on writing a digital chess book? Are they expected to have enough sales? > -Will lowering the prices compensate for me not being titled? > -Please answer the questions from your standpoint I think some ways to earn could be 1. Start streaming,post videos on YouTube (that's a good way to earn if your channel gets big but that's difficult) 2. You can give chess lessons but not sure that you will get good number of students

new_player_123

#9

@BinaryBishop said in #5:

You can stream, I saw 800 elo that just curses and make random move have more viewers than a 2500 that makes educational content so yeah

Because streaming/VOD is about entertainment.

If your 2500 lacks this ability, but wants an increased viewership, then an easy way would be to give live chess courses to a bikini girl in a pool or something that way.

@BinaryBishop said in #5: > You can stream, I saw 800 elo that just curses and make random move have more viewers than a 2500 that makes educational content so yeah Because streaming/VOD is about entertainment. If your 2500 lacks this ability, but wants an increased viewership, then an easy way would be to give live chess courses to a bikini girl in a pool or something that way.

boilingFrog

#10

2600 + US$ 3.00 = cupacoffee ...