Only boring people get bored. 
You say it yourself... you are not willing to sit down and read a chess book. You are shutting yourself out of an awesome collection of interesting and instructional experiences!
Good luck with that...
Getting Bored of Chess
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R.I.P me
Jul 5, 2016
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#6
Try the interactive Chess Mentor program here, it might work for you. Or, if affordable, hire a coach who might be able to teach you such things in a more entertaining way.
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Jul 11, 2016
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#8
I tried Chinese and Japanese chess. For a while I got quite enthusiastic and began to like it more than Western chess. They're great games. Xiangqi (chinese chess) is insanely tactical and seems more like a mental version of kung fu than anything else. Shogi has the excellent device of "drops" where you can put a captured piece back onto the board. It also means that you can sacrifice pieces and obtain a "custom" army, to some degree at least. Games usually last much longer than xiangqi or chess.
After a few months of that though, I began to miss Western chess. It has it's own good points. Xiangqi and Shogi lack any super powerful piece like the queen, which means they can seem clumsy in comparison. Western chess also has pawn chains. In xiangqi and shogi pawn capture the same way they move, so no interlocked pawn chains occur. That's a big difference. The interplay between pieces and pawns in western chess is one of it's best features. Pawns can act as shields for pieces, they can act as anchors, and they can also be annoying obstrcutions, for both sides! That type of thing doesn't happen in xiangq and shogi. Western chess also has stratagems like the "bishop pair" Its satisfying to obtain the bishop pair, clear the center of pawns and have the bishops tear into the enemy position like crossfiring artillery.
But I still play xiangqi and shogi regurlarly as well as Western chess. They are all very different, and experiencing the contrast between them all keeps you fresh.
There is also a program available called Zillions of Games which has many variations of Western chess to play.
I'd say experiment a while with other chess types to keep fresh. Who knows you may find other types of chess more to your tast, but I myself found that playing other types made me see Western chess in a new, fresh light.
Jul 11, 2016
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#9
Check out acapella music bro n u'll discover that it's loaded with naturally sensational stuff like chess...
As you can see from the responses, most boredom with the game results from the method of learning, overexposure, or simply the lack of the glitz and glamor of today's computerized games - many people don't wish to invest the time that is sometimes required to grasp the beauty of the game. Perhaps surprisingly, very few quit the game from the boredom that can result once they learn the real-life analogy: the massive losses to both sides that often result from 'victory', make conflict a no-win proposition!
Eeswar U noob!
Apr 29, 2018
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#12
I tend to binge on it, overload then give up for a while. It a pretty self indulgent hobby, meaningless and contributes nothing to the greater good.
Old guy walked into my chessclub a few years back carrying a big box of chessbooks etc to give away. said he wasted most of his adult life playing correspondence chess, and if he ever had his time over again he would not have touched the game.
If chess has become boring, perhaps try something slightly different like Monsiv ?
You can play it here: https://monsiv.com
It's like a faster, smaller version of chess.
One of the key differences is that you can swap adjacent pieces, which makes for some fun tactical choices.
Give it a go, I hope you enjoy it.
Full disclosure: I created Monsiv.
Hi Chess.com Community,
I have been playing chess for close to 3 years now and I am a fairly good player USCF : ~1900, Fide : ~1700, and I want to improve in chess, but I am way to bored, I am not willing to sit down read a tactic book, or any chess book for that matter. The only thing im willing to do is look at openings. What is a way that will get me more excited to get up and do chess?
Eeswar