you tried the “swallow a spider to catch a fly” approach. flea powder works best.
How do I quit Chess?
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bong711 a écrit :
I tried Checkers, Penpalling, and Philosophy and Science forums to replace Chess and Chess Forums. Chess Addiction is like Smoking. After quitting, you try one stick or one game, you return to old habits.
interesting I used check to fight the cig's addiction !
then i was addicted on forums here
now I stop two days a week to post and ...walk outside, nothing more, the WAY ! ZEN !!
Mar 19, 2019
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#24
Kasparov had same problem. He retired from chess and join Russian politics in 2005. But he keeps playing Exhibition games.
Mar 19, 2019
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#25
Why to quit? Probably your problem is blitz, not chess, so stop playing blitz and begin to improve your rapid games.
Mar 19, 2019
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#27
Here's a new idea. Restrict your friends to those between 9 & 12. This hasn't become a statistic yet but one never knows.
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/leaving-chess-com-forever
Mar 19, 2019
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#28
Even when i talk to people now or work on something... am pondering nimzo or sicilian variations... itching to get blitzing again?!
I have quit chess, but last year I decided to play a little bit and realized that I had increased 200 rating points and that made me want to study again!
(apparently I got smarter or more lucid with age, more clarity of thoughts).
When I think of 'quit' chess this is about 'stop studying chess' ... Playing without commitment once a week online (or play for 3 days, stay 3 months without playing, then play for 4 days, etc ...) For me this is already quit ...
GoodKnight_331 escreveu:
Burn your chessboard and uninstall this app
people addicted in chess are good in blindfold chess... Chess is inside our head! lobotomy is the unique way!
tortoises3 escreveu:
The best proven way to not play chess is to: not play chess!
que true question is: "why stop play chess?" or "why play chess?"
Who are we? Where we came from? where are we going? What to play against Modern Benoni? etc...
Mar 19, 2019
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#34
What makes chess addicting is when you played a brilliant combination. Eureka! The feeling of"I'm brilliant". Ego level feels like I'm great!
Mar 19, 2019
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#35
Lion play card and checkers other day... compare to Chess... they are kidster game.
Here's a surefire way to quit chess. This is what I would do. Hypothetically, of course...
First, take your games very seriously and be very arrogant as if you're the best. Then play opponents and lose over and over. It helps if you lose games you clearly should have won, but you made foolish mistakes and mismanaged your time. Get angrier and angrier after each loss, becoming increasingly more baffled that you are losing to nobodies when you are the best. Your rating will drop slowly but surely, adding to the rage. But do not stop playing until you get a win (shooting for two wins in a row is even better). Finally when you get a win to break your tremendous losing streak, look back and realize how many games you played in a single sitting, how many hours you wasted, and how far your rating has sunk. Retire on that bitter win and convince yourself that chess is a waste of time and that you should be doing more productive things with your life.
Mar 19, 2019
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iluvzmebirds wrote:
if you figure out how to stop thinking about elephants, you will succeed at jacking in chess. endeavor to persevere.
medical science calls this pachydermus interruptus
Mar 19, 2019
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bong711 wrote:
Many of us tried to quit chess in the past. After quitting for a few days, few months, few years, most of the quitters return playing chess. Would it be better for some of us to quit chess... For good. How can we quit... Permanently.
I think I will quit chess the same time I quit the Earth.
Mar 19, 2019
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SmyslovFan wrote:
bong711 wrote:
Many of us tried to quit chess in the past. After quitting for a few days, few months, few years, most of the quitters return playing chess. Would it be better for some of us to quit chess... For good. How can we quit... Permanently.
I think I will quit chess the same time I quit the Earth.
I believe chess is part of the elon musk mars package
I tried Checkers, Penpalling, and Philosophy and Science forums to replace Chess and Chess Forums. Chess Addiction is like Smoking. After quitting, you try one stick or one game, you return to old habits.