You could just do both. Pursue your profession as a doctor, and pursue your hobby as a chess player. Chess is generally only lucrative as a profession for Super GM's, and there's nothing wrong with playing chess for fun.
One of my friends was world under 18 chess champion. He gave it up to be a doctor/ researcher.
The reality is as many have said, you need to be a super GM to be lucrative or be lucky and become one of the best youtube teachers . Generally to be a youtube player that people watch you need to be either very attractive (and almost always a girl) or you need to be exceptionally good at something like analysis or be one of Magnus, Hikaru, or Eric Hansen.
I also had the privilege to hire Luke McShane into Goldman Sachs back in the day. He was an exceptional chess talent and only very recently fell out of the top 100. He is regarded as the best amateur player simply because he is just that - an exceptionally gifted amateur who is now in finance.
I think that it is incredibly hard to become a Super GM even if your talent is through the roof so it is a very hard life compared to being a doctor where you are mostly set for life i.e. you won't even be poor if you are a doctor.
So unless you are 8 years old and have never lost to anyone younger than 10, you probably aren't going to be a Super GM so probably best to become a doctor.
The reality is as many have said, you need to be a super GM to be lucrative or be lucky and become one of the best youtube teachers . Generally to be a youtube player that people watch you need to be either very attractive (and almost always a girl) or you need to be exceptionally good at something like analysis or be one of Magnus, Hikaru, or Eric Hansen.
I also had the privilege to hire Luke McShane into Goldman Sachs back in the day. He was an exceptional chess talent and only very recently fell out of the top 100. He is regarded as the best amateur player simply because he is just that - an exceptionally gifted amateur who is now in finance.
I think that it is incredibly hard to become a Super GM even if your talent is through the roof so it is a very hard life compared to being a doctor where you are mostly set for life i.e. you won't even be poor if you are a doctor.
So unless you are 8 years old and have never lost to anyone younger than 10, you probably aren't going to be a Super GM so probably best to become a doctor.
life is difficult because you don't post this topic on OFF TOPIC section
@chesscomispaytowin20 said in #23:
> life is difficult because you don't post this topic on OFF TOPIC section
I have to disagree. Asking for advice on how to increase rating quickly is not off topic. The fact that people have given more general advice is not the fault of the original poster, and also not a big deal.
> life is difficult because you don't post this topic on OFF TOPIC section
I have to disagree. Asking for advice on how to increase rating quickly is not off topic. The fact that people have given more general advice is not the fault of the original poster, and also not a big deal.
@Brian-E said in #24:
> I have to disagree. Asking for advice on how to increase rating quickly is not off topic. The fact that people have given more general advice is not the fault of the original poster, and also not a big deal.
yeah sorry i don't read the 1st post
> I have to disagree. Asking for advice on how to increase rating quickly is not off topic. The fact that people have given more general advice is not the fault of the original poster, and also not a big deal.
yeah sorry i don't read the 1st post
two key differences between medicine and chess: first, as many people have already noted, is that doctors make more money than chess players. The 10,000th best doctor in the world probably makes 10 times as much as the 100th best chess master.
The second difference is the degree of permissible error. Doctors get to bury their mistakes and move on with their practice. Chess masters spend days, weeks and months agonizing over the smallest errors, because the game is so competitive, and so much hangs on so little.
The second difference is the degree of permissible error. Doctors get to bury their mistakes and move on with their practice. Chess masters spend days, weeks and months agonizing over the smallest errors, because the game is so competitive, and so much hangs on so little.
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