Making money with chess

@new_player_123 said in #9:

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.

Sadly in our currently fallen world you are 100% right, that would be the only way to really bring it to the masses...:(

@Professor74 said in #14:

In 1997 I started doing research on the relationship between chess and AI. As a result, I started giving lectures on this subject. Years later I created a website, in which I have written many articles, a Youtube channel and then my other social networks. About ten years ago I was lucky enough to be invited to write some articles on an English Grandmaster website. In parallel with these activities, I had already been working as a chess coach. With the appearance of Zoom in the middle of the last decade I began to form some study groups which in the beginning were small (5 to 10 students); I currently have between 50 and 100 students in each group. I currently do these tasks online and face to face.

Wow! I'm impressed because of everything you do in chess. You really have very lucrative activities in chess.

Kasparov made money if anyone has he got corporate funding and hosted; this I believe could be done now . Like drum up a big match you see the problem is the prizes are too small but they have no funding. Even starting a club could lead to this if you had players with talent and excitement.

@KraigUK said in #19:

Are you still active on chess.com/? Used to see
you posting all the time, now not so much.
https://lichess.org/forum/off-topic-discussion/my-activity-at-chesscom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOyEIuVzzQ

The recent crowning of World Chess Champ Ding Liren presents a unique opportunity to capitalize on his popularity while combining it with the thriving ice cream market. The proposal to launch an ice cream truck specializing in DING CHILLING branded ice cream at chess festivals is an astute business venture.

For context, see the video above, which has an astounding 16M views, showing how large the DING CHILLING ice cream market could be.

The strategic choice to sell DING CHILLING ice cream during chess festivals, generally during the warmer months when ice cream demand is high, allows for effective targeting of a specific demographic. Chess enthusiasts attending these events are likely to be familiar with Ding Liren and are thus predisposed to be drawn to a brand associated with him. This targeted marketing approach increases the likelihood of sales and, consequently, profits.

@Abigail-III said in #16:

• Organize. Create a tournament. Charge people to participate, If it's a high level tournament, charge people to be spectators. Make money out of selling food, drinks and t-shirts. Get sponsors. If there is a place where a lot of grandmasters live near each other, you could organize bus tours to their houses.

Can you give examples as I am preparing to write an article about exactly this subject on my blog? I think there are very few tournaments organized by professionals nowadays. On https://nextlevelchess.blog/organize-a-chess-tournament/ the Swiss grandmaster Noel Studer wrote that he earned about 1$ per hour while organizing a tournament. That is maybe fine for some very poor countries but not in developed countries.

in most countries organizer does not earn dime. Whether country is rich or not. Only in places where population density is high and chess is popular it possible to make even 1$/hour

@peppie23 said in #26:

Can you give examples as I am preparing to write an article about exactly this subject on my blog? I think there are very few tournaments organized by professionals nowadays. On nextlevelchess.blog/organize-a-chess-tournament/ the Swiss grandmaster Noel Studer wrote that he earned about 1$ per hour while organizing a tournament. That is maybe fine for some very poor countries but not in developed countries.

I cannot give you any examples. Maybe no chess event organizer currently makes a dime. But there are professional event organizers in part of society. There isn't anything magical about chess which prevent events to be organized in a way the organizer doesn't earn a living.

@Abigail-III said in #28:

I cannot give you any examples. Maybe no chess event organizer currently makes a dime. But there are professional event organizers in part of society. There isn't anything magical about chess which prevent events to be organized in a way the organizer doesn't earn a living.
I know 2 exceptions : Czech tour and First Saturday Chess but even then the organizer(s) earn(s) a very basic income by it and it only works because of some very specific conditions.
99% of the tournaments are run by volonteers. However I see nowadays there is a clear lack of tournaments as many tournaments have long waiting lists. So it means there are not enough volonteers to organize tournaments. There are other disadvantages too by having volunteers run chess-tournaments: inexperience/ lack of commitments ... Professional organizers could solve those issues but money seems to be the problem. Where to find the necessary funds as most players are not going to pay more as long those cheap tournaments run by volunteers keep existing.

Some weird questions by OP. For example how is one very high rated +2500 but be untitled? As far as I know you get FM by default when you reach 2300 and unless I am mistaken you get CM at 2200. Not to mention almost everybody is a NM these days.