The addiction to chess can really affect the quality of one's life. On average chess players spend 20 hours per week on chess and neglect their family life and personal development etc as a result. The illusion of becoming chess masters drives these people to the very edge of precipice and destroys their lives completyely. To negelct one's family, general physical fitness, studies and future personal development are all a high price to pay for this futile whim.
Sure, for those of you who aren't going to succeed....
Big deal!
Yeah, I wouldn't even care if I could become good enough. Getting that good wouldn't destroy my life; it would make me extremely happy.
zukertort: spend 20 hours per week on chess and neglect their family life and personal development etc as a result.
If you think chess is time-consuming Zuker, you should take up triathlon. There is so much training that divorce has been listed as a triathlon injury.
I remember reading an interview with a leading US triathlete who said she trained every night from 6-8 pm. "What if the kids get sick?" asked the journo. "They'd better not get sick between six and eight," she said.
And, if the time spent isn't bad enough, there are all those sweaty clothes to be cleaned -- not to mention the perpetually smelly Nikes. I invented a foot deodorant once that was guaranteed to produce sweet-smelling running shoes but couldn't find a manufacturer to take it on. It was called "Eau dem golden slippers".
It's good to train the mind, body and spirit. If you neglect one the others suffer also.
16 hours a week, jamdonut? how do u do it? i'm trying to cut down to 16 hours a day...
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