Bored with chess...READ this.

teacher_1, you're hilarious!

(wait... this is a joke right...?)

I've never posted on this site, so here goes:

1. GM Yasser Seirawan is *not* bored with chess (I know first hand).

2. Yasser and I share a concern that at the highest levels, chess is becoming played out.  I probably feel that way more than he does.

3. Seirawan chess is intended to force players to think on their own, which is (to many) the most attractive part of chess.  It is not "anti-chess".  It extends chess, and feels very chess-like.  Yasser and I always play several blitz sessions of it when we get together.

4. Speaking for myself, and here I disagree with the initial poster, I find bullet (one-chess) to be the best alternative to s-chess.  Both get away from the computerized homogenity of "modern chess".  So I don't oppose faster time controls - if they are sufficiently fast (see "One Minute to Mate" for a more elaborate discussion of this).

http://www.seirawanchess.com/

i will say this, it's time for chess to evolve, more pieces (more ranks and files...) more levels and perhaps a random set up of the back row pieces..  Here are my ideas for some pieces.  I have given them female names because all except the queen in traditional chess are considered males.

Queen (new version still one on board):

Capture only:in the traditional fashion of non jumping in any linear direction.

Move only: any vacant square on the board, yes including the first move if one desires.

Princess: (two on board):moves and captures like a traditional queen, non jumping in any linear direction.

Lady (two on board): this is a jumper limited to the color of it's starting square it travels or captures by moveing three squares in any linear direction and then one square in a different linear direction. here the queen represents the lady and the pawns represent the jump-able squares she can go to.

FYI, there is already a name for Baiters, they are called Trolls

Some of us feel like chess is a very deep and hard game - something to fascinate us, not bore us. 

Bored with this... play chess

If, chess is boring try thinking deeper. Shallow thinking skips over the surface of everything. Then life itself is boring. That's a big problem only you can solve to stimulate interest in something.

personally speaking, I still find chess both enjoyable and challenging, but I can see what you're saying, so try finding variations (eg: chess960) and see if they are more of a challenge. Alternatively try giving up chess for a while and find a different game to challenge yourself with (ever tried mahjongg?)

I think being bored with chess has more to do with the endorphine levels in one's brain than it does with chess.

Everything, including sex, is boring.  Especially sex, especially for women. 

Aldous Huxley says that an intellectual is a person who has found something more interesting than sex.

Sherlock Holmes relied on cocaine to make things interesting.

Great minds are always bored.  Their brilliance is manifested in creative solutions to unbearable ennui.

Idiots are always fascinated with everthing.  Give an idiot a brick, an iPhone, a TV, a prostitute, an internet forum—their pursuit for pleasure is over.

I am reminded of Lermontov's "A Hero of Our Time".   The superflous man is perpetually bored with the world, and yet boredom is his engine.

You are all Pechorin.  You play chess only to conquer your foe, have sex only to conquer the woman.  You all are selfish and hedonistic.  You all need Jesus.  Even with Him, you are all too ugly with sin for me to look upon.

I leave in disgust.

In 1 thing he's right, memorizaton is more important then just play, let's say I have few amateur books, there sicilian and spanish game theory goes to move 16, you can hardly invent that's new and usefull, so the guy who prepaired and memorized moves that provide better position for his colour will win (at least in most cases)- that's why I like reading Capa :-)

four decades a chess legend. . . . . and still with a 1200 rating?  chess has been around in one form or another for over a thousand years must have something about it? all i know is , to be a member of a chess site and not play chess on it is a weird hobby. Do you belong to a gym that you go to just to look at the other people training while you sit and eat a big mac??

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I read about two sentences into your post before I too got bored.

And it's no wonder you get bored if all you play is 1. d4.

You're talking as a retiring person which is sure there's nothing to do with the one's occupation having done the best at activity days...

The same way it might be said about anything after years of a close participation.

No reason to give up so except the situation you are winning in all the games you challenge.

Computers vs Humans? PCs are nothing without humans but humans stay humans without computers.

Thus have a leave for a while and come back to win us all!

I've just challenged you to play "Retiring retry" game.

:)

Well, at least there are people who have not become bored with the GAME, as I have. I truly am glad to hear that.

And for my fellow chess comrades who took offense to my post, I APOLOGIZE.

It is not my position to offend or to rile people up, I leave to ZIRYAB and his troll minions.

See, people, I have as a previous poster noted, a conquering type of personality. I want to conquer what ever it is I set my MIND on, and then move on. I'm not here to brag, that is not my intention, but I feel I have conquered all there is to conquer in the world of chess. I have reached my proverbial ceiling, won my share of awards, and have done things in the CHESS world that not many people can claim to have done.

But hold on, I still love the game. Cannot I be bored with something and still love it?

Believe it or not, THIS VERY SITE and its passionate members keeps the teeny tiny spark that I have inside, LIT.

Thank you.