Titles
GM means...
Grandmaster
You can learn chess by
Looking for nearby chess clubs or finding an online chess teacher
The main income of chess grandmasters is
Teaching chess
The FIDE elo required to gain the GM title is
2500
You can play chess at
You can find a chess teacher by
Searching online
The wealthiest chess player is
Hikaru Nakamura
The WCC is
The world chess champion is a special title obtained by winning the world chess championship, it is the only chess title higher than a GM and the current holder of the title is Ding Liren.
Tournaments can give prize money of around
$100,000 for placing around top ten in big chess events
You can become a chess teacher by
Finding an institution that offers the job or offer private lessons to students in a website
Chess coaches have an average salary of
$30/hour
Chess titles being taken away
Once you gain a chess title, you will never lose it
The strongest chess GMs currently are(Name 5)
Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Hikaru Nakamura, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wesley So, Leinier Dominguez Perez, Alireza Firouzja, Sergey Karjakin, or Anish Giri
You can become a GM after playing chess for
An average of 8 years of chess playing is required to become a chess GM
The average income of a chess grandmaster
$59/hour
The FIDE elo required to acquire the WGM title is
2300
The prize fund for winning the world chess championship is
$2,000,000
You can become a chess GM by
After gaining a FIDE elo of 2500, players must gain 3 GM norms from playing at least 27 chess games in tournaments with a rating performance of at least 2600.
Magnus Carlsen has a net worth of
$25-30 million