No thinker. You should order the best deluxe wifi butplugs and enter the Singfield cup. Good money!
To followup on greysensei's comment, if you look at the list of coaches on Lichess:
lichess.org/coach
You'll see some pretty strong and well-known GMs. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is.
lichess.org/coach
You'll see some pretty strong and well-known GMs. Nothing wrong with that, but it is what it is.
Betteridge's law of headlines applies to this post:
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
The answer is NO ... The best way to make money is investing in the stock market ...
@Thinker001 Stay in school dude ...
Chess As A Lucrative Career: VERY TOUGH. Not only do you have to compete against human players, you also have Artificial Intelligence to contend with as well.
If it is your dream, I say go for it !
If it is your dream, I say go for it !
a few years ago, very few chess professionals made much money. Unless they were in the top 10 or 20, they had high expenses travelling to tournaments and staying in hotels, they had to try to find people willing and able to pay for lessons, many didn't like teaching chess, it took time away from their study and free time. If any one of those people decided to drop chess and put the same effort into a traditional occupation, they would earn so much more money.
these days there are more chess professionals earning a really good income on twitch and or youtube, way more than a typical occupation. some GMs but many IMs and lower.
Many of the successful streamers worked really hard for years with creating videos and whatnot with hardly any views. In some ways these people got lucky (the harder and smarter they worked, the luckier they got) by being in the right spot at the right time, but also there's something about them that resonates with viewers. they're entertaining in general. They would be entertaining and successful doing other things on youtube and twitch. It just happened that their interest was chess and they were willing to put in the work for years for no reward purely because of their love of chess.
the chess people that didn't work hard creating videos or didn't get lucky with streaming still struggle to earn a living.
Just my opinion, if you want to earn decent money in chess, you either have to be in the top 20, or be a successful streamer.
starting from 0 today trying to become a successful streamer is probably going to be harder than a few years ago. You'll need an entertaining personality for one, something that resonates with viewers as well as the willingness to work hard for no reward for many years. On top of that, you'll need to get good at chess, which out of the billions of people in the world that learned chess as a kid, and the millions that play it a bit, less than 2000 make it to GM.
the odds of getting good at chess isn't good. and the odds of being a popular steamer isn't good either.
maybe keep chess as a hobby and work towards an occupation that involves chess in someway. maybe IT, or marketing, or broadcasting, there are probably 100s of jobs that are sometimes involved with chess.
these days there are more chess professionals earning a really good income on twitch and or youtube, way more than a typical occupation. some GMs but many IMs and lower.
Many of the successful streamers worked really hard for years with creating videos and whatnot with hardly any views. In some ways these people got lucky (the harder and smarter they worked, the luckier they got) by being in the right spot at the right time, but also there's something about them that resonates with viewers. they're entertaining in general. They would be entertaining and successful doing other things on youtube and twitch. It just happened that their interest was chess and they were willing to put in the work for years for no reward purely because of their love of chess.
the chess people that didn't work hard creating videos or didn't get lucky with streaming still struggle to earn a living.
Just my opinion, if you want to earn decent money in chess, you either have to be in the top 20, or be a successful streamer.
starting from 0 today trying to become a successful streamer is probably going to be harder than a few years ago. You'll need an entertaining personality for one, something that resonates with viewers as well as the willingness to work hard for no reward for many years. On top of that, you'll need to get good at chess, which out of the billions of people in the world that learned chess as a kid, and the millions that play it a bit, less than 2000 make it to GM.
the odds of getting good at chess isn't good. and the odds of being a popular steamer isn't good either.
maybe keep chess as a hobby and work towards an occupation that involves chess in someway. maybe IT, or marketing, or broadcasting, there are probably 100s of jobs that are sometimes involved with chess.
duh, next topic. no offense but OF COURSE not. as Zappa says, "you could make more money as a butcher, so don't waste you time on me". (cosmic debris)
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