10 Personality Disorders of Chess Players

All chess players, amateur and professional including past chess greats are the subjects of this thread. Please don't post non chess player. Chess.com players fall under amateurs so you could name any and which type. Which one is your chess hero? your favorite chess.com player? you?

Cluster A (odd or eccentric disorders)

1. Paranoid personality disorder: characterized by a pattern of irrational suspicion and mistrust of others, interpreting motivations as malevolent.

2. Schizoid personality disorder: lack of interest and detachment from social relationships, apathy, and restricted emotional expression.

3. Schizotypal personality disorder: pattern of extreme discomfort interacting socially, and distorted cognitions and perceptions.

Cluster B (dramatic, emotional or erratic disorders) Main article: Cluster B personality disorders

4. Antisocial personality disorder: pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others, lack of empathy, bloated self-image, manipulative and impulsive behavior.

5. Borderline personality disorder: pervasive pattern of abrupt mood swings, instability in relationships, self-image, identity, behavior and affect, often leading to self-harm and impulsivity.

6. Histrionic personality disorder: pervasive pattern of attention-seeking behavior and excessive emotions.

7. Narcissistic personality disorder: pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a perceived or real lack of empathy. In a more severe expression, narcissistic personality disorder may show evidence of paranoia, aggression, psychopathy, and sadism, which is known as malignant narcissism.

Cluster C (anxious or fearful disorders)

8. Avoidant personality disorder: pervasive feelings of social inhibition and inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation.

9. Dependent personality disorder: pervasive psychological need to be cared for by other people.

10. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder: characterized by rigid conformity to rules, perfectionism, and control to the point of satisfaction and exclusion of leisurely activities and friendships (distinct from obsessive-compulsive disorder).

Source. Wikipedia

I believe original post isn't long enough for anyone this time.

In game, if one gets too involved, there is negative consequences.  In work, if one gets too involved, there's negative consequences too but at least there you are compensated with money or something.

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Do you mean to say that chess induces personality disorders. It could be true.

No. These disorders occur in non chess players too. I limit this discussion to chess players only.

Ok. Well to be honest I do believe that chess players are prone to mental illness due to the mind critical nature of the game.

The apex are the people who play the French. 

There is no proven evidence chess causes mental or personality disorders. We do know anything in excess is harmful. And GMs specially super GMs and world champions play, study, think chess more than 8 hours a day.

That is a strong argument. However, there are links between creativity and mental illness. People like John Nash who got treated for mental illness later complained that they lost most of their creativity with their illness.

Among creative persons, many are bipolar (myself included). The mania episode give them the energy to explore, innovate, invent, discover others could not.

I'm against bipolar to be treated as a.mental disorder. Treatment destroy his talent.

So yo´ve got 1770 of this "energy" @bong711?.. I do not have bipolar, and am close to that. You´ve been shafted. 😉

Ridiculous assumption!

Chess is not the only talent. Arts, mathematics, computer science, etc are other outlets of creative energy.

And sex.

Sex is an outlet.

Now that is readable!

For me...I would fall into a mixture of A/B categories, due to my low end of the spectrum Asperger's. 

I fall under #10. I conform to a set of rules and norms always. Have 1 or 2 friends only (in rare time 0). I however don't expect others to do the same. I don't think I'm perfect. just excellent 😎

You forgot the eleventh--and worst--personality disorder; the compulsion to make foolish and pointless lists