How can I play Chess again?

This is merely one side of the story. A 12 year old's. One who thinks his life and career is chess.

In his eyes his parents and perhaps even life may be unreasonable.  While we hear what he says, we also have to temper it with the necessary context.

Karjakhin was a GM at 12. In this area "kids" are professionals. 

His side of the story is all we have. Any judgement extending beyond that is dependent on this. If what is reported is accurate, its ridiculous. 

So I played a game of chess somewhere in the public while sitting down, and my parents were busy doing something. My dad came over to me and said, "Son, get off Chess." and I replied with "Ok".

This is the story we are going with. And nothing happened before this to trigger this kind of reaction from the dad. Yeah, this dad has issues.

But is that really the case? In most stories I've heard there's a lot more history. However in this case, that might just be all.

Karjkain was a professional. Kids are just kids.

And speaking of kids, sounds like you didn't get enough hugs as one, sheesh.

Agreed. In my limited experience with kids (and many adults), however, it's almost never accurate and more investigation is warranted.  There is of course the other side to this where child abuse goes ignored.

And this is a kid with no parenting.

Hey, the kid gave you a thumbs down.

Same as that chemist-physician, remember?

Probably means this kid has a genius level intellect.

I'm shattered

"get off chess" isn't "stop playing chess forever"

which means he grounded you for a rule which never even existed

which means it's his fault(kinda) you played chess in the bathroom

and it's not your fault that you can't play chess at all anymore

but taking it as a potential job is ridiculous, you probably had to be at least IM by this age to have any chance

so yes, this makes no sense

but also, how you're responding makes no sense as it's not a big deal

Meanwhile the OP is singing

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Jebko is back again. *sigh*

lol

I mean 

>dad gives son order

>son says “okay”

>son proceeds to disobey said order, even after saying “okay”

I agree the dad was harsh by grounding him for one whole week instead of just taking his phone away for that moment or smth and I can’t really defend him there, but it’s his child.

Lol what makes you say that?

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I can’t believe this story. I had the same problem, but I think I understand what your parents trying to say. They don’t really want you to stop playing chess completely. They just want you to not play it a lot. 1 hour a day might be okay for them. This is my opinion though. Check again whether they want you to stop playing chess, or they want you to play it less. I mean everyone knows chess is good. 

property rights is whats at stake here right?

I don’t really believe the dad took chess away from him forever tbh. So many times, my parents have been like “say goodbye to your [videogame I’m using]!” But they really just want to seem strict so you take them seriously, and I get it back after I start behaving. And this was when I was like 12 too lmao.

When I don’t listen more than like 5 times, he takes it away in my case

ok, everyone is just talking about whether what the kid did is right or not, or how unfair the dad is (I'm guessing this thread is a mix of kids and parents) from what the kid said there wasn't enough to go on for the dad, but he should have said something like "dad, can I finish this game first?", but that is not the question. the question is, how can he get his parents to let him play chess again?