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re:why do GMs charge so much - 2006/07/09 14:12
If you dont have the discipline to study good chess books then you're probablly wasting your time and money on expensive lessons. Chess teachers rarely impart anything magical. In my opinion the best they can do is teach you what you need to do, unreasonably during the 99% of the time you're not with them, to improve. The rest is up to you, but I think most people (myself happily included)
feel "Hey, I've just spent 90 minutes with so-and-so and paid him $100.
That's good enuogh until next time!"
GMs can tell you, for example, how to study a master game but rarewly give better advice than Fritz 5.2 on specific moves. They can show you important endings but then again so can a good $25 endings book. They can show you middlegame themes and plans but you can get a lifetimes' worth of top-level game analysis from $100 worth of books. (Of course you can have a $500 library like me, and if (like me) you don't read 'em, what's the point?).
I beliueve GM teachers' benefit is mostly psychological, although for me it's reverse psychology (the more lessons I take, the worse I get).
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