Becoming obsessed with chess!!!
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The trick is to have several obsessions, so that when one gets to be too much, you can rotate them. My obsessions are chess, writing, mathematics, and reading novels in French. Any one of these by itself could destroy me. I keep them circulating so that no one of them can take me over completely.
Play chess 24 hours a day.
Do other things the rest of the year ;)
i cant ever get 2 sleep for thinkin about moves i will make etc...i have let it get to me
pop some downers. [alcohol+phenobarbitone].
ponar wrote: i cant ever get 2 sleep for thinkin about moves i will make etc...i have let it get to me
Thinking about the moves my opponent can make is what deprives me of much needed beauty sleep!!
Can't recall ever dreaming about chess though, just those minutes before sleep of an interesting position floating around in the head, knights leaping here and there, bishops floating across the board, pawns battening down the hatches, sometimes sharpening their lances!
35 years or so ago i was intensely learning chess and bridge simultaneously. I used to have dreams like 'PXKt QxP, but then west trumps the Q with his spade-A! (NOT spade-deuce), strips the clubs, and leads the spade-deuce for a losing-card triple squeeze that forks their K and Q. That completes preparation for tomorrow's physics exam - I am sure to max out!
It is true - I didn't make that up! :)
Phil_from_Blayney wrote: ponar wrote: i cant ever get 2 sleep for thinkin about moves i will make etc...i have let it get to me
Thinking about the moves my opponent can make is what deprives me of much needed beauty sleep!!
Can't recall ever dreaming about chess though, just those minutes before sleep of an interesting position floating around in the head, knights leaping here and there, bishops floating across the board, pawns battening down the hatches, sometimes sharpening their lances!
as well as dreamin about chess... i get that constant chess board in my mind and think of where my opponents are going to move etc...
it is crazy how it sticks in your mind, so much so that it takes 2 long 2 get 2 sleep.
Ain't that the truth 
I on the other hand, is suffering from chess burn-out
if im not at work i will b on here ... that is obsession
Bodhidharma wrote:
I on the other hand, is suffering from chess burn-out
Long and short reveal each other. High and low support each other. Light and darkness reinforce one another.
So to does chess obsession and chess burnout follow each other like the front and the back of a thing.
/you have attained my marrow
Obchessed?
I learned to play as a kid, but in the last four months or so I've been getting into it more than ever before. I dream about it too, now. Somtimes when I'm awake random board positions will pop into my head and I will think of all the posible moves. I also think about it when I wake up.
I wish I was faster at reading notation because studying the games of the masters is quite enlightening. So many moves left unstudied. Always so much yet to learn.
Bodhidharma wrote:
I on the other hand, is suffering from chess burn-out
Fisher went a little loopy. Morphy seems to have just got bored with the lack of competition. Curt Von Bardeleben was so tormented that he jumped out of a window. Kaissa can be a hard girl to love.
Jul 17, 2008
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I really wonder - Where am I going with all this? - Well - I say - I'm trying to improve - I'm a lousy player and I'm trying to improve - to be what? - a better lousy player than I was before - and if I really got better - would I know it? - will I ever reach the level of improvement I am striving for - will I ever be satisfied? - I can suffer through an opening - struggle through a middle game - worry and fret through an endgame - and then - when it's finally over - when the contest has found it's resolution - no matter if I have won or lost - I miss it
Dr_Doc_MD wrote: erik wrote:
maybe this is just my personal biased opinion, but for the cost of 1 chess book you can get 2 months of Chess Mentor (www.chess.com/chessmentor ) which has much more material than a book. and for the cost of 1 book you can also get unlimited tactics trainer on Chess.com (www.chess.com/tactics). the only chess books i buy are for openings! Eric is advertising stuff for chess outside of this forum! Ban him!!!
Have you realized you're really asking eric to ban himself? <(..)>
vervada wrote:
Dr_Doc_MD wrote: erik wrote:
maybe this is just my personal biased opinion, but for the cost of 1 chess book you can get 2 months of Chess Mentor (www.chess.com/chessmentor ) which has much more material than a book. and for the cost of 1 book you can also get unlimited tactics trainer on Chess.com (www.chess.com/tactics). the only chess books i buy are for openings! Eric is advertising stuff for chess outside of this forum! Ban him!!! Have you realized you're really asking eric to ban himself? <(..)>
yeah, next thing you know, he will ask everyone to join some kind of ass cult. With a single purpose of eating crap and then taking over the world.
Rael wrote:
My brother in Tao...what is by nature long do not shorten, and what is by nature short, do not length. Zen flesh, Zen bones
Bodhidharma wrote:
I on the other hand, is suffering from chess burn-out
Long and short reveal each other. High and low support each other. Light and darkness reinforce one another.
So to does chess obsession and chess burnout follow each other like the front and the back of a thing.
/you have attained my marrow
My brother in Tao...what is by nature long do not shorten, and what is by nature short, do not length. Zen flesh, Zen bones
CyberSensei wrote: I'll take my Chess.com straight-jacket in an XLT with the initials CS, please!
I want one too, XXL with R.S.P. on the cuffs please
Last night I had a dream that I was playing chess with Rob Corddry, and my knight kept shrieking and shrieking at me. I purposely hanged it to shut it up, and then I woke up and I was in the middle of a park, hanging over a chess table
