Answers.Body: <p>I highly doubt that there exist one. If it would exist, it would be full of sandbaggers or engine players. There is no way to verify who exactly plays the game. You, or your Stockfish/Houdini/Rybka/.</p>
  
  <p>So even if you are GM, you most probably will lose money.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I was playing MPL Chess & Playerzpot Chess. I am sure most of them use Chess engines. No spine to win it with their skill. It's funny, they say "You are fair play protected" everywhere!
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Answers.Body: <p>As others have mentioned, there is no genuine site to make real money because it's so easy to cheat online by using chess engines. </p>
  
  <p>The closest thing to "money" would be "ducats" as allowed on the <a href="http://www.playchess.com/">Playchess</a> server. Playchess has strong algorithms that can detect if you are cheating (i.e. using a program), so it is a pretty legitimate way of making "money". <a href="http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/200_dukaten">Ducats</a> can be used to</p>
  
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    <li>play against grandmasters or to pay for private training. </li>
    <li>buy ChessBase products.</li>
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  <p>So, if you're really good and win a lot of ducats, you can earn yourself some nice material from the Chessbase Shop, which includes chess DVDs, magazines, programs, etc. </p>
  
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Answers.Text: @RauanSagit that sounds plausible. But I suspect that if you give people cash, smart cheaters can always cheat smart enough to fool the cheating algorithms (like someone once fooled Nigel Short into thinking he was playing Bobby Fischer).
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Answers.Text: @RauanSagit this actually turns out as a bad idea. Chess cube tried something like this and failed desperately. No matter what you can win, people will try to win it. Right now CC is full of sandbaggers and people with 1300 rating playing like 2000. Any anti-cheating algorithm takes a lot of time to process and do not forget, that you as a verifier has limited amount of servers to run this verification, whereas there are thousands of games needed to be verified. Also you put trust in verifier and eventually someone will be able to find how to bypass it.
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Answers.Text: @RauanSagit and also microchips inserted in their brains, real passports information and 2 policemen with guns standing besides them  ready to shoot them down on cheating. Jokes apart, what stops me from submitting FIDE card of some Indian GM? Also theoretically the way you described it is possible, in practice no one has done it and most probably there is a reason.
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Answers.Body: <p>There is this site chesscube.com which has their own currency called Crowns which can be redeemed for cash or merch .<br>
  Earning Crowns requires you to participate in their online rapid tournaments .<br>
  If you use engines then they will be able to catch you.   </p>
  
  <p>But its very tough if you are not a professional :/ </p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>I am a USCF master and FIDE Master.  The most legitimate place to play online chess for money is <a href="http://www.velocitychess.com" rel="nofollow">www.velocitychess.com</a> </p>
  
  <p>VelocityChess is a new professionally run chess website.  One of its features allows you to wager "vChips", which you can redeem for cash or cash-equivalent gift cards.</p>
  
  <p>The anti-cheating security against engine-use and sand-bagging there is WORLD CLASS.  </p>
  
  <p>Furthermore, you are fully refunded your vChips if your opponent is caught cheating.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Wow ... have you actually read the terms and conditions of that site?  There's some truly special stuff in there.  In fact, the only thing I've seen that's worse is the FIDE Online Arena (which requires taking total control of your hardware, at which point you can say goodbye to any confidential or private data, like, say, financial records).
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Answers.Body: <p>Not by playing. And cheating is rampant so you would be a fool to try that.  </p>
  
  <p>If you want to make money there are a few sites that help connect teachers to students.  Both local students as well as others online.
  So how good are you and are you willing to work to make money or are you a gambler.</p>
  
  <p>If you must gamble them william hill in UK probably takes bets on chess tournaments but they now block people in usa from even accessing what bets are available.  EU access might be okay or  you could move to UK.  </p>
  
  <p>I used to like to LOOK at the odds they had for some things like US elections.  </p>
  
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Body: <p>Does anyone know if there are any sites by which I could play chess professionally and earn money similar to gambling sites or online poker sites ?? </p>
  
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Comments.Text: Or lose money online playing chess?
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Comments.Text: chess gambling? bad idea
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Title: Online Sites For Earning Money Through Chess
ThreadText: # Online Sites For Earning Money Through Chess
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-04-03)
  
  Does anyone know if there are any sites by which I could play chess professionally and earn money similar to gambling sites or online poker sites ??
  
  **Tags:** online-chess, websites
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Or lose money online playing chess?  
  > **username_2**: chess gambling? bad idea  
  
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  ## 5 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2014-04-04. Score: 15
  
  I highly doubt that there exist one. If it would exist, it would be full of sandbaggers or engine players. There is no way to verify who exactly plays the game. You, or your Stockfish/Houdini/Rybka/.
  
  So even if you are GM, you most probably will lose money.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_4**: I was playing MPL Chess & Playerzpot Chess. I am sure most of them use Chess engines. No spine to win it with their skill. It's funny, they say "You are fair play protected" everywhere!  
  
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  ### Answer by username_5 on 2014-04-04. Score: 10
  
  As others have mentioned, there is no genuine site to make real money because it's so easy to cheat online by using chess engines.
  
  The closest thing to "money" would be "ducats" as allowed on the [Playchess](http://www.playchess.com/) server. Playchess has strong algorithms that can detect if you are cheating (i.e. using a program), so it is a pretty legitimate way of making "money". [Ducats](http://shop.chessbase.com/en/products/200_dukaten) can be used to
  
  > * play against grandmasters or to pay for private training.
  > * buy ChessBase products.
  
  So, if you're really good and win a lot of ducats, you can earn yourself some nice material from the Chessbase Shop, which includes chess DVDs, magazines, programs, etc.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_5**: @RauanSagit that sounds plausible. But I suspect that if you give people cash, smart cheaters can always cheat smart enough to fool the cheating algorithms (like someone once fooled Nigel Short into thinking he was playing Bobby Fischer).  
  > **username_3**: @RauanSagit this actually turns out as a bad idea. Chess cube tried something like this and failed desperately. No matter what you can win, people will try to win it. Right now CC is full of sandbaggers and people with 1300 rating playing like 2000. Any anti-cheating algorithm takes a lot of time to process and do not forget, that you as a verifier has limited amount of servers to run this verification, whereas there are thousands of games needed to be verified. Also you put trust in verifier and eventually someone will be able to find how to bypass it.  
  > **username_3**: @RauanSagit and also microchips inserted in their brains, real passports information and 2 policemen with guns standing besides them  ready to shoot them down on cheating. Jokes apart, what stops me from submitting FIDE card of some Indian GM? Also theoretically the way you described it is possible, in practice no one has done it and most probably there is a reason.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_6 on 2015-03-09. Score: 1
  
  There is this site chesscube.com which has their own currency called Crowns which can be redeemed for cash or merch .  
  Earning Crowns requires you to participate in their online rapid tournaments .  
  If you use engines then they will be able to catch you.
  
  But its very tough if you are not a professional :/
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_7 on 2014-07-16. Score: 0
  
  I am a USCF master and FIDE Master. The most legitimate place to play online chess for money is [www.velocitychess.com](http://www.velocitychess.com)
  
  VelocityChess is a new professionally run chess website. One of its features allows you to wager "vChips", which you can redeem for cash or cash-equivalent gift cards.
  
  The anti-cheating security against engine-use and sand-bagging there is WORLD CLASS.
  
  Furthermore, you are fully refunded your vChips if your opponent is caught cheating.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_8**: Wow ... have you actually read the terms and conditions of that site?  There's some truly special stuff in there.  In fact, the only thing I've seen that's worse is the FIDE Online Arena (which requires taking total control of your hardware, at which point you can say goodbye to any confidential or private data, like, say, financial records).  
  
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  ### Answer by username_9 on 2019-12-18. Score: 0
  
  Not by playing. And cheating is rampant so you would be a fool to try that.
  
  If you want to make money there are a few sites that help connect teachers to students. Both local students as well as others online.
  So how good are you and are you willing to work to make money or are you a gambler.
  
  If you must gamble them william hill in UK probably takes bets on chess tournaments but they now block people in usa from even accessing what bets are available. EU access might be okay or you could move to UK.
  
  I used to like to LOOK at the odds they had for some things like US elections.
  
  
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