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How strong you need to be to make money with chess?

Come on, you can't really make a living by teaching chess.
To make a living by playing and teaching chess combined, you need to be at least 2550-2600, I guess.
And FIDE rating. There's a huge difference between 2500 on lichess and 2500 in real life.
Maybe you cant but I do it on the side and I enjoy it. I actually couldn't care less if I got paid for it or not. Its fun and some people really enjoy it. Im no master or even a decent player but those that attend have fun and like my stuff. I am always well prepared with the stuff I am going over and have had better players than me look and give analysis of the games. As well as my own ideas too. This topic is kinda off topic but the person asked "How strong you need to be to make money with chess?" Not make a living hatchet. Make money could be anywhere from 10 dollars a month to 3000 a week. But from my prospective have fun and do what you enjoy. Many people suggest you must be good at something to do it. If its not killing someone and its legal, ethical and so on by all means do it if you like it.
Ok, you're right about that, I misread the question. I should go to bed anyway now :D
"You can't really make a living by teaching chess."

This. Chess, of all things, isn't exactly popular culture; what's worse is that anyone can learn it by themselves for free with a book from the library or watching Youtube videos, or even get by with just practicing a lot. You can make a living teaching sports because it's popular, and you can make a living off teaching piano because your clients can't learn it by themselves, but not chess unless you're either really good or have low living costs.

However, if your bare expectation is to make some money, then being an entertaining streamer who delivers promising content and get interested viewers to subscribe is not really hard.
Yeh. Being on my laptop should not be a good idea ether. I have tests early in the morning and its very late. LOL. But what the heck I like lichess forms.
To Legend at #10, In Canada you get a prize if you make it to the top. When you do this, you can no longer play in this section and have to go up to the above section. It is also worth to mention that the prizes are usually shared among many players. Also the undivided top prize is a just a little higher than the tournament entry fee. So, unless you are in the top section which is called "Open", " Primer", or "Crown", the prize is very small. To win at the top section, you have to be a very strong player. Wesley So frequently wins here. You have to be able to beat him.
@Unihedron
There's a lot of garbage out there on youtube, but also a few bright stars. My favorites are Daniel King and the St.Louis chess club. Sometimes, but very seldomly, I look at a video by KC. He does a good job at explaining his stuff but his audience is lower rated, so it's a bit tiring to watch because he points out things which are obvious to stronger players. Also, I don't know whether that's a habit of chessnetwork or also KC, but I hate it when people call out the square and piece that moves every move, even if the move itself is totally arbitrary. I can see that myself, thx, I don't need you to point out that the knight went from e1 to d3. There are some guys on youtube sitting there in front of their camera and half of the video is them saying:
"The white pawn moves from e2 to e4. The black pawn moves from e7 to e5. The white knight moves from g1 to f3" and so on and so forth.

Bottom line:
chess books are better, also because you then set up the pieces on a real board, instead of watching passively on a screen.
Chess club of stl Ben Finegold and Akobian. Also Jon analysed a couple of my earliest chess games on air a few weeks ago.

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