The following post is not intended to offend anyone but rather express a few of my thoughts over the matter of chess, especially concerning the following post:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-im-done-with-chess

1. Chess does in fact reflect a part of what your "true intelligence" is.

• If a person thinks he is a "genius" then he most likely is not so. Not even Albert Einstein qualified himself as a true genius. When he was asked, why he was so intelligent he simply replied; "Its not that I am smarter, it’s just that I stick with problems longer." 
• Chess is able to reflect part of your intelligence; however the term "intelligence" should not be taken lightly, as it is more complex to understand because it is not easily measured. (Refer to: "First, Break all the rules" by Mark Buckingham.
• Becoming better at chess is simply a matter of gradually increasing the level of performance than can be measured in positive results even if they are very small. You cannot simply stay like the just the way you are sheet music. In other words, you can't hope for things to change if you don't change. Of course there are many factors under the hood that take place. However for the sake of simplicity bear with general idea.

2. Chess in itself does not cause people to become unfriendly and callous. Chess simply provides a platform for socializing and intellection with others. With this platform people express their values, beliefs, arrogance, and even ignorance towards others. Chess and unfriendliness or callousness behavior cannot be described as a cause and effect relationship. It might however be true that there exists a correlation ship between both.

3. Chess does not waste time. In psychology, our perception of the world is referred to as our filter. The same applies to chess. The perception that there are more fulfilling activities to do other than chess is completely subjective to your personal filter. This so called “filter” is simply our combination of senses, personality, interests and such. All of this however is greatly influenced by our biological background and social-cultural influences.

4. If you consider chess to be shallow (empty, unfulfilling) to you, then please know the following.

·         Chess is not shallow. Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid…. Please refer to: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess for further details of what is chess.

·         The above being said, then know that chess can actually be more than just a game, in fact, chess for many is a profession, it’s a passion, it might even be their life. (eg.Kasparov, The 6^th grader who just learned, Fischer)

·         If chess is simply a distraction in your life, then the chances of becoming better than the average are nearly none. To back this statement I quote: “A new study carried out by the British scientists revealed that it takes a person 10,000 hours of practice to become ace in a certain discipline”.  

All this being said, consider it as some rambling ideas that might in some way or another influence your perception of chess hopefully in a positive way.

Mr. Subsari and his $.02 cents.

There ARE a lot of jackass's on here, but I don't think chess caused it. They would be that way, chess or no chess. Whether or not it's a waste of time depends on the person, and whether they think it is for them, personally. I took this up because I heard it helps your concentration, not to become an ace player. The jury's still out on whether I decide I'm wasting my time, since I still at the totally crap level, and don't feel I'm getting anywhere.

I am extremely disappointed that the quitting chess forum has garnered so much attention. And you Mr. Subsari are almost as bad. This post could have just gone with rest in the other forum, but instead you did this so that you could shine the spotlight on yourself. I hope that you get the attention that you are craving.

So much backlash on a guy who wanted to quit. Theres no need for it. I would rather not see it consistently in the hot topics for the forums. Over a 100 posts bashing one guy who decided to publicly hang it up. He didn't need to publicly do it, but who cares? Apparently all of the denizens of the chess.com forums decided that they cared.

And Mr. Subsari, though you post is well said, why would you follow the format of your predecessor? Why not write a new post about why not to quit chess?

Respectfully yours,

Jason

@Jason 17

I am truly not trying to spotlight myself. The fact that the post has reached such level of attention might be because of the fact that the thought might have crossed the minds of many; Including myself.

Every person should be respected by their decision concerning they're personal matters, such as a decision to quit chess.

I just followed the format of his post because I thought it would be easy to compare my thoughts which every point that he was expressing.

I think that I might take the time to create such a post, I'll try to find some time this week to do so.

I hope that my post is not misinterpreted. I was just expressing a few thoughts of mine.

If you notice that the structure and my way of expressing seems rather very structured and philosophical its because of the College fever so please bear with me.

@Subsari

I never said that your post was philosophical. Making a few allusions to some books does not make your post philosophical. I'm glad that you caught the college fever and did some reading. Good for you. That's neat.

And you clearly are trying to put the spotlight on yourself, otherwise you would have posted this with the rest of the garbage on the other forum, as this one pertains directly to it. But you want to make sure that it doesn't get lost amongst the other posts, so that everyone can admire your elegant prose, and tell you how smart you are.

However I eagerly await your future post, explaining in a new unique way, why we shouldn't quit chess (if you can find the time, what considering that you have caught college fever and all)

Edit: I guess though, in order to not defeat the purpose of my post, I should stop responding to this so that I don't shine the spotlight too brightly on you, since thats not what you want

Jeje...

B-. Next time make sure your citations have some kind of academic worth. Also, -5 points for making reference to wikipedia.