Timeline for Careers in Chess
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| Nov 7, 2017 at 14:58 | comment | added | Evargalo | Missing on the list is a category that might be the most numerous: chess hustlers in parks. | |
| Nov 7, 2017 at 14:54 | comment | added | Evargalo | Is there any professionnal chess composer ? Even the best and most active ones don't make much money out of their composition (if any) afaik... | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:29 | vote | accept | Arun J | ||
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:29 | history | edited | Arun J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:25 | comment | added | Arun J | Problem composer! Yes, I worked on one, for a chess training site. @user58697 | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:24 | comment | added | Arun J | @patbarron Thanks for your comment! It makes perfect sense. Is there another way to word the question ? hm.. *x Ways people make money in chess :P :) * | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | Arun J | @StudentT I couldn't find another word for people who make a living making beautiful chess sets. (Wooden, metal ones) | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:21 | comment | added | Arun J | @RemcoGerlich Good observation! | |
| Jan 10, 2016 at 17:20 | comment | added | Arun J | @JeffY Is tournament director the same as arbiter ? | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | user58697 | Problem composer | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | patbarron | It was a very long time before I realized that tournament directors (USCF) and arbiters (FIDE) are actually paid, at least in large tournaments - I always thought they were just volunteers. ;-) | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 16:13 | comment | added | patbarron | I guess it depends on what you consider to be a "career" - if a "career" is something that occupies the majority of your time and generates your main income, then the only ones in this list that I think are plausible would be as a chess journalist/writer, or as an employee (e.g., office staff and officials) of one of the federations. For any of the others in this list (aside from being a professional player, which only a few can do), I can't see many good ways to rely on chess as one's main source of income. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 12:00 | comment | added | GloriaVictis | FIDE and national chess organisations officials? | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 11:23 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | There are people in that area trying to make a living ( e.g. chess-art.eu/catalog ) but calling that a career is going a bit far. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 11:03 | comment | added | SmallChess | +1 @RemcoGerlich I think this too too wide. For example, chess artists? Any professional artist can also do it. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 10:56 | comment | added | RemcoGerlich | The bar for what can be a "career" seems to be very low; you couldn't make a living from most of these and would need to combine them with an actual job, or with others from the list. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 10:54 | comment | added | Jeff Y | Tournament Director. | |
| Jan 7, 2016 at 10:25 | history | answered | Arun J | CC BY-SA 3.0 |