Is there life after chess?

Oh yes, for sure.... old chess players are retired to a nice, cosy "Day Room" where Draughts/Checkers is the only game allowed.

Most certainly not.

I've often wondered how depressing it is when you realise you are past your peak and are definitely on the way down. I suppose you have to raise your eyes from the board and finally do other things in life.

aadaam, several chess players would disagree, even very good ones.  Tal for example played even when he had to know that he was terrible.  Several world champions have left FIDE chess in the past due to personal disagreements and "political" considerations, Fischer and Kasparov being the most recent.

Fischer, Lasker, Botvinnik, and Morphy are all playing an infinite simul’ against every person that has ever lived. Each time one of them is defeated, a new chess revolutionary is created.

They say the author John Bellairs was a casual chess enthusiast. I was born on the day he died. Hope still remains.

There is life after chess . If you want it to be . Meaning if choose to give up chess then walk away with a clear mind . If you know that you are on the decline but still have love for the game as I do then continue with chess . Coach , volunteer , this is a stressful game but that is why we love it to see that person break and give up . That is why we pit ourselves against each other . But when you have devoted so many years to chess in training , study , travel ,money . I can't see myself not being involved in some form or another . Who ever chooses to walk away from it I wish them best that life has to offer . Good luck 

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When did we start putting spaces in between our punctuation?

When did we start being so needlessly picky?

do we always have to anwser a question with another question?

I also wonder what happens to those champion players who are far off their peak. They must have had an incredible competitive spirit to get where they were but now get beat by nobodies. I guess there is no chess ego to be injured?

Bisguier comes to mind. Former US champion and now for many years just a regular master, below USCF 2300 for 7 years and now just above 2200.  Yet he keeps playing and no doubt enjoying himself.

I have to wonder how I'd deal with it. Probably be frustrated and maybe quit competitions.

The better question might be, "Is there life while being addicted to chess?"

Hehe!  :)

Yes, people float out of their bodies and see the great bishop in the sky.

I have no intention of quitting, so the pertinent question for me is "Is there chess after life".

I think there is, but you can't choose who you're going to reincarnate in. (a checkers player who hates chess, a grandmaster, it's a gamble).