If you were Bobby Fischer, you wouldn't do anything but chess, and if you were Capablanca, you would do chess only when you had nothing else to do (such as chasing women, attending receptions and sleeping all day...)
A Day in the Life of a Pro Chess Player
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Jul 22, 2010
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- wake up
- eat cereal
- place cereal pieces onto the table in mating patterns
- lose to the corn flakes and get pissed off
- shower
- leave the house for work
- contemplate all day why you need this stupid job since you are so crazy good at chess
- mouth off to your idiot co-worker who thinks the latvian gambit is undefeatable
- drive home
- jump on your computer for chess study time
- tactics
- review your openings
- decide that the novelty you've been working on for the past three weeks is crap
- get bored and flip on the tv only to wonder why the hell chess is never on
- watch few hours of the bachelorette marathon while wondering if her nose really does resemble the bishop from your childhood set you used to have
- retire to your bedroom and cover yourself with your black and white checkered sheets
- slowly drift off to sleep with the pain of having to deal with your pathetic existence
That sounds like a Tuesday for me.
Sep 20, 2010
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Gambitking wrote:
trigs wrote:
mouth off to your idiot co-worker who thinks the latvian gambit is undefeatable
Wait, so that was YOU? Wow... I'm speechless--thanks for letting everyone know I'm an idiot, trigs!
nothing personal ;)
Sep 21, 2010
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Gambitking wrote:
However, our stats seem quite similar--I wonder if you'd be willing to back up that statement? It'd be interesting if we played a game and then both made a blog post about it later with our thoughts about the different moves... I think it could be really instructive! You know me--I'll jump at the chance to get 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f5!? on the board as Black (especially in correspondence!) any day of the week! So whaddya' say?
sure Gambitking. sounds good to me :) i'll send the invite.
and i'll try to hold up my side of the agreement ;)
trigs wrote:
mouth off to your idiot co-worker who thinks the latvian gambit is undefeatable
You forgot to add that the last thing in your day just before bed is lose to an internet novice playing the Latvian because you strated drifting off to sleep too early!
Sep 21, 2010
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soach wrote:
trigs wrote:
mouth off to your idiot co-worker who thinks the latvian gambit is undefeatable
You forgot to add that the last thing in your day just before bed is lose to an internet novice playing the Latvian because you strated drifting off to sleep too early!
Gambitking has yet to prove this fact ;)
From what I know of professionals essentially you have to treat chess as a low paying job, one where you put in lots of unpaid overtime. It is probably impossible to reach IM level without 4-6 hours (at least) of serious study every single day.
Sep 21, 2010
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CapAnson wrote:
From what I know of professionals essentially you have to treat chess as a low paying job, one where you put in lots of unpaid overtime. It is probably impossible to reach IM level without 4-6 hours (at least) of serious study every single day.
wait...you mean it takes more than an arrogant, eccentric attitude towards life in general?
I'm just wondering, hopefully some pros can answer, or anyone with input for that matter, but what is a daily itinerary for a chess pro... I mean, how hard do you study, train, etc. Is most of your day spent lounging around going over this or that, or is treated like an actual occupation where you spend 8 solid hours focusing on getting better?
How important is it to stick to a daily routine?
And at what stage of your chess career do you decide, ok, I'm going to be a professional chess player?