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Online ratings are often higher than tournament ratings, and they may give you a false sense of where you stand.

Though your rating is in the 1400s, your tournament rating would be closer to 1100 or 1200.

Instead, why not be more practical and see how good you can be? The questions about being a grandmaster or a chess teacher will fall into place once you get more experience with the game. Nevertheless, let’s not leap into teaching quite yet. Of course, you will have to know a lot more about chess than you do now, but that is quite doable. Teaching is a skill, and even if you’re rated 1500, you might be just what the doctor ordered for children or beginners of any age. I’ve known many very low-rated chess teachers who are absolutely excellent. BeekeeperBob, let’s discuss this in a positive light. Keep in mind that there are 600 million to 800 million chess players in the world and only 1522 grandmasters. And don’t forget that very few people ever become international masters and grandmasters. But you would make far more money and have much more security if you went to university and got a great career. Of course, being a grandmaster and teaching students and writing books isn’t that bad. It wasn’t what they wanted to do when they started out, but when reality hits you in the face, you have to bow to it. As a result, grandmasters usually have to teach chess and write chess books. Other than the top 10 or 20 grandmasters, most of the rest will never make a lot of money. Iif you live in America, then you can forgot about health insurance … way, way too expensive. Though being a chess pro might sound romantic (it certainly did to me when I was young), the romance quickly melts away when you realize that you’re broke, starving, and living in a hovel. Nakamura got the GM title at the “old age” of 15. We now have an international master who is 10 years old and grandmasters that are 12, 13, and 14 years of age. Yes, there are always exceptions, but for the most part, that’s the way it is. To have any chance to be a top-10 player, you’ll need to start playing chess very early-best is 6 or 7 years of age. Pain (losing and failing is agony, and few can handle it as time goes by), time (as I said a moment ago, years and years), and money (chess books, chess software, traveling to tournaments, chess teachers, etc.) must all be dealt with to become a grandmaster.

You will fail, you will continue to study, you will fail again, etc. Getting an IM or GM title demands endless effort. The answer, though, isn’t what most people want to hear. The reason that this question appears so often is that most people don’t know how much goes into attaining those titles, so their question is quite reasonable. In future, I’ll tell anyone that does ask to read this article. Anyway, this will be the last time I answer this question. The funny thing about all this is that, when hired me, my very first letter was by a 19 year old who wondered how long it would take for him to become a grandmaster! LOL… I was horrified. He left as a result of abuse from ignorant trolls. Apparently those no-names don’t like truth, so they (in effect) wanted Andrew to lie. And, as is often the case, a zillion anonymous internet know-it-alls (or was it two zillion?) screamed that he had crushed the man’s dream. Andrew was insulted since he had worked extremely hard for many years to get to where he is now (an IM and a highly regarded teacher and writer), and the tone of the letter made it seem as if getting a chess title was a piece of cake.Īndrew made it clear that the gentleman writing that article would never get the grandmaster title. If memory serves (and it rarely does nowadays), the guy was 21 years old with a very low rating and wanted to know how long it would take him to be grandmaster. He got a similar though less realistic letter. IM Andrew Martin was here before me and doing a great job. Oddly, this question first led me to writing for. I get quite a few letters by people who dream of being a chess professional.

So before I go spending the many hours of studying chess and the many hundreds (and thousands) of dollars, I have several questions: First, am I really that good, that given enough time I can do well at chess? And if I am good, how long would you expect it to take for me to get my IM and/or GM? 10 years? 15? And finally the third and final question, has anyone actually started their chess career at my age, and achieved a ranking that put them in the top 50 chess players of their time?”įirst, we'll toss a bit of reality your way. Unfortunately, I currently have no official ranking. “I am a 19 year old who has been toying with the idea of making chess a career for me (either playing professionally or teaching chess).