The pros and cons of being a professional chess player.
The pros and cons of being a professional chess player. I first filmed this as a video for my YouTube channel. To he honest I never really wanted to do YouTube, because I didn't like the idea of sharing my life with others. But financial issues forced this change of direction. That is the reality of being a chess professional now, the money is very bad. So in this post I wanted to talk a bit about the pros and cons of being a professional chess player. The pros: 1. You get to set your own time. You have total freedom, more or less. You can pick and choose whether or not to play tournaments. You can sit at home and create books or courses. You can coach people online. 2. You get to travel to places both in your own country (In my case England) and abroad, that you might not have got to see if you were stuck behind a desk for 40 weeks of the year, as you would be in a typical job. 3. If you play at a high enough level, you get to compete against some of the best players in the world...