Wow. Have you ever heard of paragraphs?
Nope. Never. Just wanted to end this once and for all. It's pretty simple mathematics really. Chess is hard and unless you have the means to do nothing but study chess all of your life then you're going no where with it. I think that should pretty much sum everything up.
Either you put time into chess and get good or you put average time into chess and suck your entire life. I'm just being honest..... There is no point in playing casually for me any longer. I'm just going to get destroyed unless I give my life to this game. Hopefully this puts it into perspective for future readers.
Even Fischer wasn't the greatest when he first started out. He had to give his LIFE to the game to achieve what he did. Now, I'm not saying that he didn't possess more than an average intelligence or knowledge of the game because honestly it was way above average. Even then though, someone at his level of capability should showcase just how truly grueling chess really is. Fischer ended up hating chess. He said it best when he stated that the only thing that matters in chess are good moves. Just because a person has logic and creativity though doesn't mean that he/she is automatically going to be able to apply it to create a great piece of music, art, etc........ it doesn't work like that. You have to absorb yourself and bathe in whatever subject you want to excel at. If you're even thinking of trying to get good by playing casually then that proves to me that you don't possess the necessary passion for the game that a person would need to possess. If you don't love chess then you're just going to be mediocre at it, being able to beat pretty much everyone in your city, but in reality, you're absolute trash compared to everyone else. That's just the God honest truth. Also, when I say trash, I mean that in the most non-offensive way possible. This isn't some kind of joke. Either you love chess or you don't. It's as simple as that. Obviously if you absolutely love the game and want to do nothing but play chess then chances are, that you're probably going to rise in skill a lot more than most players because you have the desire to sacrifice everything to become good.
With that being said. I don't think that anything a person truly wants to get good at should feel like a chore to them. I hate to say it though but most of the people reading this right now it probably comes to a point to where it ends up feeling more like a chore than an actual passion. If you don't have that passion and truly love the game devoting your life to it then you're going no where. I love the game of chess, but I don't love it enough to where I can devote my entire being into it. That's just the God honest truth. Now, I think that people can change though. I think that people can start out hating chess but truly also simultaneously loving it enough to where it becomes their life mission to achieve a goal. I think that a love/hate relationship is possible but it's going to have to be more love than hate is what I'm saying........
Ten years later I still suck