I guess once you understand basic principles like zugzwang, rooks on the 7th, overextending pawns and fortresses. I don't think you have to be able to apply these things in your games though.
At what point you can call yourself a chess player?
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LarsVDMnl wrote:
I guess once you understand basic principles like zugzwang, rooks on the 7th, overextending pawns and fortresses. I don't think you have to be able to apply these things in your games though.
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May 28, 2022
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#5
as soon as you touch a chess piece and make a move, congrats you are a chess player,
not joking, i am serious, but if you meant at what point you can call yourself a good chess player, then answer is after you hit 1100 barrier, intermediate good player 
May 28, 2022
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#6
When you're not worster than Worster, so that nearly includes everyone.
May 28, 2022
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#7
When you've played on game and intended to play again. You're already chess player.
May 28, 2022
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#8
I would say once you are interested and start playing you can consider yourself a chess player; even if that makes you a beginner.
When you play your first game of chess. No matters how you play chess maybe good or bad what matters is 'you play chess'
at the 3rd lunar cycle after Jupiter's SECOND moon passes thru Oremdis meteor field. that's when...and don't you dare do it one sec b4.
May 29, 2022
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#11
a chess player is a person who plays chess
so when you make your first chess move in any sort of game?
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I think you are a chess player once you move a piece and want to keep playing chess because you are playing chess and that makes you a chess player.
May 29, 2022
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#17
For that you have to change your name to "Chess player" in your official documents.
Then everyone would call you chess player.
May 29, 2022
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#18
You are a chess player after playing at least 14 OTB tournaments games.
when I started playing chess
May 29, 2022
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#20
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🧐 chess player, as a title? or as an award given to you in OTB or online arena tournaments, as for any other titles, my opinion on this is:
👉"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles."👈
😌 To me, that shows that the "chess player title" does not honor the person, as the title is only worth what everyone has put into them. Thus, I would say the people honor the title, by being worthy of them. While the title may have requirements to attain it (and help in the prevention of dilution of the honor), it is only a reflection of what the recipients of the title have done.
😌 Being worthy of a title, to me, is far more valuable than the actual title. In my heart, with or without the title, I know that I was worthy. The title is the icing on the cake, as it were. The honor exists more for other people, so that they know what I have earned. Becoming someone worthy of the title is far more valuable than the title itself.
☝️😏 Now I don’t want this to turn into some kind of title-chase, where you set your sights on certain titles or awards solely for the purpose of attaining them. The idea is to become someone worthy of the title, then if you get noticed and win it, so much the better. Again, the journey is far more important than the destination.
Thoughts?