How Much Money Does Chess Board Games
WAYYYYY more than i have won. And i wouldnt change a thing.
£0 and I don't plan on spending money on chess at all
FishEyedFools wrote:
WAYYYYY more than i have won. And i wouldnt change a thing.
lol
Throughout my entire life I've spent maybe 20 dollars on chess
I've spent about 20 USD, I bought Logical Chess Move by Move (15 USD), and the Chess King App, Tatics for Beginners (5 USD).
tough question as im not really sure when am i spending money on chess.
chess is my life, so spending money to play chess means spending money to live
i can easily say i spend $30.000 on chess, but travel expenses tournament fees club membership etc become large numbers when spread over 20+ years 
I own a few books and my wife got me a travel board. All in all maybe $40 over the past few years.
Probably around 30-40 € over 7 tournament (starting fee, donation...).
Probably several hundreds of dollars on chess books alone. Then my annual Diamond Memberships (about $300) and about a two hundred on chess sets. It's only money. I know people who spend more than that on cigarettes.
A few grand maybe, mostly on sets, boards, books, and Diamond. Cheap enough as hobbies go. Just compare it to golf or skiing or photography.
I've spent in the low hundreds of dollars over the years on software (i.e. many versions of Fritz, and chessmaster) and books (I have 3 Silman books among many). But my most expensive
chess purchase was an ebony chess set last year. $192 just on the set. Goes great with my
Drueke board, which isn't easily available anymore since Drueke stopped making them.
I have a chess clock, and a nice tournament size quadruple weighted plastic set, also
purchased last year. However I've never spent a dime playing. Never played a tournament game over the board.
Less than on cameras and fountain pens. WAY less than I used to spend on golf ;-)
My Gold Membership, a small inexpensive chess set and a used copy of Silman's The Amateur's Mind. About $35.00.
fryedk wrote:
I can say, conservatively, that I have spent over $3000 on chess. The vast majority of this would be tournament fees/travel expenses, and books. I also have a couple boards and 2 clocks.
Not even a single buck... my parents won't let me buy anything... but maybe after 2 weeks I'll have a chessboard... maybe on my birthday... maybe....
Over the past 46 years? Probably 5 to 10 thousand dollars, Canadian. My first chess book cost me $1.25, but that was when I was 15, and believe me that was a lot for me at the time. I still have several hundred books and magazines, although I have given away about half of what I had. I haven't gotten into collecting sets, probably never will, but at one time I did play in as many OTB tournaments as I could, and the travel for that got a bit expensive. But like FishEyedFools, I wouldn't change a thing (except maybe those speeding tickets on the way to North Bay that summer)
This could be like the old credit card commercials: Some things in life are priceless. For everything else, there's Mastercard.
Seems to me you are playing for free now ,are you not? Wether you win or not remains in your hands.
One of my close friends played in the World Open U1400 section a couple of years ago and tied three-ways for first place and won $4,750. Needless to say, he is now "up for life" on his chess expenses. Must be nice...
3000? thats a lot, I would like to spend more, it is impossible to go to most of the tournaments because those are in other cities and I can afford them, I spend well my diamond membership, some lessons and the few tournaments that I can go in my city so not that much
How Much Money Does Chess Board Games
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I can say, conservatively, that I have spent over $3000 on chess. The vast majority of this would be tournament fees/travel expenses, and books. I also have a couple boards and 2 clocks.