Becoming obsessed with chess!!!

My fault!!

I wrote my previous post (1st page) and originally included a suggestion for having a section on chess.com with top rated chess books. We could vote for the best chess books we have read and the highest votes would help people to see which are the best books. Then after I clicked submit and read my post I realised it was way too long so I edited it and took the bit about voting for the best chess books out. Eric must have read it before I edited it.

Still think its a good idea tho. Despite us all knowing that Chess.com is great, it doesn't have all there is to know about chess. Some helpful pointers to good books would help. (And yes even good opening books).

That was the best,most accurate answer possible! 

seriously that is sad.

Im mean thinking about it.... yeah i can understand that but dreaming! Thats incredible.

I really can't explain the allure of chess...a simple game, like checkers or chess, but something about it is different, and I don't know why. 

All I want to know is when you're gonna make your next move!

On playchess.com i have completed 3800 games since the start of 2008. Most are at 5min +5sec, 4min/ +3sec/+4sec, only a few 2+0, 3+0 and very little 1+0 games.

All of my 5+5 and 4+4/ 4+3 games i have analyzed with Fritz 11.

I have played more games on Internet Chess Club but nothing in the hundreds. Again, i have analyzed all these games with Fritz 11.

My results have been getting better and better aswell as my understanding of the game. Last week i won 30/30 games on playchess with 5+5 time control! (Mixed strength of opponents but maybe one below 1600)

I have become seriously addicted to chess latley and addicted to being a 'must win' player. 

All i can say is that we are all the same! We all love chess and winning games! I think we are probably the only people who can understand why chess is so addictive and how fun it actually is. We are all chessnutz! Lets face it ha

Let me finish by re-iterating what Bobby said; ''i study chess 300 days a year, i play for 60 days a year and i rest for 5 days.'' If you want to get to the top you need to put in as much effort as you can and become a dedicated consistent player. So, what will you do? Your move!?

"Unfortunately, chess isn't life" - Larry Evans in old issue of chess life; reprinted in his book "chess catechism".

There is also something to be said for V. Anand's soundbite: "nowadays if you are not a GM by the time you are 16, you can forget it."

 5 moves ahead? 10 plies ahead????? With or without forward pruning? nullmove on or off?

Richard Reti in Modern Ideas in Chess: " people often ask me how many moves I look ahead in chess. I answer truthfully: as a rule, none."

 Well said. Erik, I must say you are an odd sort of webmaster [i mean it as a compliment!] Ok, Thibault too [Erik you know what site i'm talking about] - in fact he has this 'feel free to click above to remove ads' thing which doesnt take away any options  when you remove ads - curiously, i dont see any ads there at all  to remove :).

 You want to know all there is to know about chess? Read Nabokov's novel 'the defence' aka 'the luzhin defence' - you might change your mind, or again, you might not ;)

...the worst thing is my friends; im obsessed with the game of chess but im pretty terrible at playing it!

 The dream never dies though.

 welcome to the club :)

by Graw81 "Let me finish by re-iterating what Bobby said; ''i study chess 300 days a year, i play for 60 days a year and i rest for 5 days.'"

Not Fisher said it!

Akiba Rubinshein, instead!  Greatest Chess Player!

 Well, does it matter who!? In any case, i will make sure to mention Akiba next time i say it. Thanks for letting me know.

Really??

Prove it mate! hehe

george you might want to try chessaholics anonymous. 

 disprove it, dear! :)