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Revealing the specific tools to make money with chess

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Welcome to this blog, dear warriors on the path to financial freedom. This is the second part of my blog on how to make money with chess. The first blog went viral, but it lacked some concreteness... I know, that you want to go on your next vacation to Dubai; I couldn't ignore that, and that's why my second blog is here today.

Today I want to give you the specific tools with their links that you can use to achieve your financial freedom with chess. Perhaps you were too lazy to read my previous blog and search on your own, due to that I wrote this blog.


Important financial concept to understand

Important financial concept to understand

What's the secret to success?
Hard work? Luck?
Perhaps to some degree, but not really. Look, the plumber and the entrepreneur may put a similar amount of time, effort, and energy into work, but the latter will always be ahead. Or do you think that Magnus Carlsen was born this strong?
There have been long debates on the secret to success, but time has shown us the answer.
Does Uber own a single vehicle? Nope, but it's the biggest transportation company that has access to an unlimited amount of cars.
Does Booking own a single hotel? Nope, but it's the largest travel agency that has access to an unlimited amount of hotels.
So, what is the point?
The secret to success is ACCESS.
For success, it's crucial to have access to :

  1. The right opportunities
  2. The right people
  3. The right knowledge

Look away, and think for a second - how much those factors can contribute to the likelihood of your success.
I guess that this blog will help you with that.
Read carefully, as that may be the most valuable information you have ever read...

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Gem 1 - Canadian chess federation

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If you are from Canada, then you most likely know about it. But most of the people don't.

  1. Scroll down to see the events column
  2. Click on "More"
  3. Click "filter by location", then choose "online"
  4. Boom! Now you can play in dozens of Canadian chess tournaments.
  5. The great thing is that you can join the CFC as a foreigner, like I did.

In this tournament, I made 150 CAD. The number of players was - 4 participants, everyone with a much lower rating than mine. I found the tournament on the official CFC page, this shows you the awesomeness of this whole scheme.
To find this gem, I checked the websites of every chess federation...
Also, you can do quite a similar thing with the US Chess Federation, however, taking the prices, and number of tournaments into consideration, the Canadian Chess Federation should be better in this comparison.

Gem 2 - Chessable course creation

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  1. Go to tools

  2. Click "Create a Course"

  3. I want to duplicate it from my previous blog because I was genuinely shocked. I ended up in 3137th place after doing 1/3 of the course that costs $40!chessable.png

    1. Doesn't matter whether you are a GM or a 1500 Elo-rated player, you can always create your course and sell it. Chessable is a super large company, owned by Magnus Carlsen.

    You can also upload to Youtube or have streams on Twitch, but in my opinion, they are more of a lottery and algorithms play a very significant role. But in Chessable the more you put in - the more you get out.

Gem 3 - Coaching

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This time without one hyperlink, because you can do it in many places such as
lichess, chess.com, tutor website #1, tutor website #2.
As you see, you have to be quite a decent player to do that, but it's worth it. The average salary of the chess coach is around $50000 - $70000.

Gem 4 - Chess scholarships

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Once again, here I found 2 scholarships, so there is more than 1 link.
You can apply and win some decent money.
This one by Plexuss seems to be quite decent to me (Hurry up, because 12 days left!)
This is the second option that I found on UMBC university website