Anyone Else?

Hey chess.com,

Do you ever feel like chess gets boring at times or is it just me?  Perhaps, should start playing tactical openings instead of my normal positional chess? I use to really enjoy chess when I played with my dad without knowledge of anything about chess. Now 3 years later, 16 yrs old, and1400 uscf, I no longer enjoy the game as much as I use to.  I think computers are extremley useful tools, but I wonder what chess was like before engines, computers, etc.  The game is definetley developing, but it seems to be developing extremely fast. I know i'll probably get over this chess boredem soon, but does anyone else have periods of chess boredem?

Thanks in Advance :)

I would take a break if its getting boring for you. when you come back you usually play a lot better.

I took a 5 month break and came back about 50 points higher at 1750

and yes, at 1400 you could gambit in every game and still score great IMO

Try Chess960.

Haha thanks, perhaps I will take a break, even though I have not been playing a lot.  Yeah, I actually don't gambit a lot it was just a cool name ;)

Haha chess 960 looks interesting but omega chess just looks bizzare lol.  Yeah, I guess I am getting a little philosophical, but I think I was just typing out my hate for how computers have changed chess.  Ignore that. 

I would suggest trying different variations of chess as well.. also, maybe bullet chess would be interesting for a while and then you can go back.