is chess actually fun 🤔

Hmm. It depends. If you win, its fun. If you lose, you rage. It also depends on the time. Blitz or Bullet is fun. But no one wants to wait thirty minutes for your opponent to move (Classical).

Rapid is ok. I play rapid but if you want it to be really fun you should play Bullet or Blitz.

In rapid people also suck wish is annoying they hang pieces in ten-12 moves way to much at least in blitz it is understandable like I can't take the rapid players seriously when they try to trash blitz chess lol

how can this game be fun -- you are constantly beating yourself up when you lose and when you win you think you can go higher in score only to come crashing down again -- so additive-- this game can't stop even when i am losing -- even when i tell myself to play another game --what other game -- there is only chess -- god i hate this game

Just enjoy the ride and don't worry about losing

Then it is fun

Don't treat your opponents like they are impossible to beat they all are 100% beatable

Try to stop after you've won a game: Enjoy the taste of victory for a while, instead of resuming the game right away. If you play blitz this doesn't work, because blitz games are like cherries, one leads to another. But if you play rapid ( at least 15'10'' ), then the single game gives satisfaction; even the ones you lose ( a little less ), because you feel that you have learned something anyway.

Change approach. Enjoy the game while it lasts, enjoy the experience of building your game. Even if it ends with you losing a few points, the fun during the time you've been playing remains. Try.