Chess Courses by RCS
Chess Courses by RCS is for hobbyists deepening their craft. Fix your chess with our iconic courses by WGM Dina Belenkaya.
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How this community works
- Pricing
- $1 a monthWell below the hobbies & crafts median of $11.50.
- Size
- 4,593 membersBigger than 88% of the hobbies & crafts communities indexed here.
- Revenue ceiling
- $4,593 a monthIf every member paid the listed price. Free tiers, discounts and churn are not visible from outside.
- Platform
- Skool
- Category
- Hobbies & Crafts
- Last verified
- 24 September 2026
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- Low price, high volume. At $1 a month the model needs numbers, and 4,593 members is what that looks like.
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About Chess Courses by RCS
Chess Courses by RCS is for hobbyists deepening their craft. Fix your chess with our iconic courses by WGM Dina Belenkaya.
Why you should join: Get peer support, practical playbooks and live rooms inside Skool. Public price is $1.
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The one-liner
A one-dollar chess school of focused courses by a Woman Grandmaster, aimed at fixing specific weaknesses.
What they actually sell
Chess Courses by RCS, led by WGM Dina Belenkaya, sells targeted training programmes for rapid improvement. The about page contrasts endless opening courses and addictive bullet play with focused curricula that fix one weakness at a time, such as breaking a rating barrier, endgames, blunder control, or strategy. Each course promises progress tracking, flexible scheduling, and forever access. Community access is listed as a free benefit beside a one-time style public price framing. Formal multi-tier products are not listed. No trial is advertised beyond that low entry.
Who pays and why
Players stuck despite buying material and grinding bullet. They pay for a grandmaster-built fix for their actual leak rather than another encyclopaedia of openings.
Where the members come from
Dina links Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube. The school is the course home behind that chess-creator audience. Exact follower counts are not printed on the about page.
What's holding it back
A catalogue of forever courses can become a completion graveyard without a strong live cadence. If community energy dips, members buy a module and vanish.
Steal this
Sell forever-access micro-courses that each fix one named weakness, then gather buyers in a shared community for accountability.
Would this work in another niche?
Yes for other craft skills that fragment into discrete leaks, such as photography or golf swing faults. Weak for topics that need long cohort arcs instead of modular fixes.
Written 24 September 2026
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