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Are you aware that most top athletes (specifically wrt individual sports like tennis, gymnastics, running, etc.) have coaches who they often swear by, but are nowhere near as good at the sport as the athlete who hires them?

Also, you ignored my comment re: financial advisors. Many very wealthy and successful people have financial advisors. Almost all of these advisors have far less money than their clients.

The top actors in the world often have acting coaches who they consider to be invaluable resources. Yet, these acting coaches are rarely considered to be top actors.

All of these people pay huge money to their coaches/advisors.

Were you aware of these facts?

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The financial advisor may be true, but it wouldn't be based on networth but average return, and if there results were lower it would need to be due to bad luck.

Would you hire a chess coach that you could beat regularly?

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If memory serves me correctly, Garry Kasparov who has a FIDE rating of something like 2812 and is one of the best chess players who has ever lived has been coached since 1995 by Yuri Dokhoian, a guy rated in the high 2500s. Kasparov can regularly beat Dokhoian easily, but still has kept him on as a coach. So, yes, if I were a top competitive chess player, I definitely might hire a coach I could beat regularly.