Chess Addiction

I recently bought my new Dell desktop and a very nice chess game came along with it.I started playing with the Basic which is a initial stage for beginners but since than I have become so addictive to it that now I consume a good part of my day playing chess.Could you tell me how I manage this problem?  

No. I am sorry but you're asking the question to the wrong people. 
 If we could manage our chess addiction we would not be here to read your question. We would do our job and take care of our children, have a good marriage and be happy.

Hi Gert-Jan,sounds like you are more addictive than me!

I just read your addiction comment. It made me laugh out loud. Yes I have the same problem as do my friends that found this web site. There is no cure.

go cold turkey for a while. 

I used to be a chess addict until I took an arrow to the knee.

TIPS FOR DEALING WITH PEOPLE WITH CHESS ADDICTION


1. People with chronic chess addiction seem unreliable (we can’t count on ourselves). When feeling better we promise things (and mean it); when in serious chess addiction, we may not even show up.

2. An action or situation may result in chess addictionseveral hours later, or even the next day. Delayed chess addiction is confusing to people who have never experienced it.

3. Chess addiction can inhibit listening and other communication skills. It’s like having someone shouting at you, or trying to talk with a fire alarm going off in the room. The effect of chess addiction on the mind can seem like attention deficit disorder. So you may have to repeat a request, or write things down for a person with chronic chess addiction. Don’t take it personally, or think that they are stupid. 

4. The senses can overload while in chess addiction. For example, noises that wouldn’t normally bother you, seem too much. 

5. Patience may seem short. We can’t wait in a long line; can’t wait for a long drawn out conversation. 
6. Don’t always ask “how are you” unless you are genuinely prepared to listen it just points attention inward. 
7. Chess addiction can sometimes trigger psychological disabilities (usually very temporary). When in chess addiction, a small task, like hanging out the laundry, can seem like a huge wall, too high to climb over. An hour later the same job may be quite OK. It is sane to be depressed occasionally when you hurt. 
8.Chess addiction can come on fairly quickly and unexpectedly. Chess addiction sometimes abates after a short rest. Chronic chess addicted people appear to arrive and fade unpredictably to others. 
9. Knowing where a chessboard is, such as a couch, a bed, or comfortable chair, is as important as knowing where a bathroom is. A visit is much more enjoyable if the chronic chess addicted person knows there is a chessboard if needed. A person with chronic chess addiction may not want to go anywhere that has no chessboard.
10. Small acts of kindness can seem like huge acts of mercy to a person in chess addiction . Your offer of a pillow or a cup of tea can be a really big thing to a person who is feeling temporarily helpless in the face of encroaching chess addiciton.
11. Not all chess addiction is easy to locate or describe. Sometimes there is a body-wide feeling of discomfort, with hard to describe chess addiction in the entire back, or in both legs, but not in one particular spot you can point to. Our vocabulary for chess addiction  is very limited, compared to the body’s ability to feel varieties of discomfort. 
12. We may not have a good “reason” for the chess addiction. Medical science is still limited in its understanding of chess addiction. Many people have chess addiciton  that is not yet classified by doctors as an officially recognized “disease”. That does not mean it is not real.

So, you're saying we should break our self-esteem and that helps?????

 LOL!  The truth hurts.

What an interesting forum!

Chess addiction is something the non-addicted will never understand. But isn't that true with any passion? For example, I don't understand many people's obsession with sports -- especially sports you simply WATCH, not actively engage in.

Fortunately for me, my husband understands my addiction, even though he himself has not let it trap him (even though he is a much better chess player than I). Many a time supper has been late or, worse, burned because I wanted to make one more move, just one more move, just one more move until.... you get the picture. There have been so many chores that were postponed because of chess and then I found myself up until 2:00 or 3:00 performing them (if they were absolutely essential) just because I was playing chess instead in the earlier hours.

But you know what? If I found a medicine that could cure me of this addiction, I wouldn't take it. I love chess and I love being addicted to it. Heck, there are so many other addictions far worse. I can play all the chess I want and still be able to drive and still spell and still see straight. Oh, yes -- chess and I are friends forever!

I thought you would like this thread, Snapdragon.

Hi, my name is Rex and I am a chess addict .  

Hi, my name is Sarah, and Reb is a ches addict.

Chorus of monotone voices: "Hi Rex."  

I could play chess 24/7, but life gets in the way.

Cop to the chess addict:

"Just put the piece down, step away from the board and put your arms in the air, you have the right to remain silent..."

CHESS!!!

"Yeh whadya want, I got pawns, bishops, knights..."

 Give me (looking around for snitches) a dime bag of bishops and make it fast, see.

 What do you want with all those bishops??

Knights are better.