I'm done with Chess. Good Bye

Try my method of "notepad" tree analysis (unfortunately I have deleted the post because of 100s of criticisms by people who never even tried it) - try writing your possible moves down, then your opponent's possible moves, like this:

18.

  18...

  18...

  18...

18.

  18...

  18...

  18...

18.

  18...

  18...

  18...

It is very slow, but helped to get my grey cells functioning - also I still find it pretty useful in very complex positions.

 I heard Piper at the Gates of Dawn for the first time last year. Different from their later music, trippy, but I liked it.

bu-bye...

But your "philosophy of Chess" has driven you from the game "wasting your time and insulting the sport" -- perhaps instead of giving up chess you should give up this philosophy of Chess which the evidence would indicate has served you poorly. 

Listen Mr. Quiter. If you are playing an opponnet 300 elo more than you mathematic probability is that he will win 7.5 and the rest is ethere draws or loses. And if you play 200 higher than it's 7 loses and rest draws or wins.

Your will power, consentration, personality have NO EFFECT on your strenght so you can stop being subjective(ego). It's like bodybuilding. The more patterns you know the stronger player you are. But if you keep pushing your self( like i did, I have quited chess 100 times, only found peace couple of month ago) you will suffer.

Since you are suffering you are in what I call in my little book of chess & psychology "9 circles of hell": confusion, paranoia, nervousness, wishful thinking, low self-confidence, perfectionism, overconfidence/ego, Boredom, Respect. You are in more than one circle. This is a masterpiece of mine after one year total dedication to chess. It will open your eyes and you will have peace of mind if not money back garantee. I sell it for some 20 euro through paypal. You can email me: the_cyber_scorpion@hotmail.com There I also explain what talent in chess is and if it's really that important. Also about tournament preparation.

Regards 2080 FIDE -no -special -talent -chess -analyst

How dare anyone say that chess isn't for him.  That is an insult to chess, the correct response is- Eo___ Isn't right for chess.  Chess is perfect.

does anyone know how old is that kid ?

Don't you know better than to be the second poster on one of this guy's threads? 

Hm..actually I sort of suffer from the same weird belief even after learning that it isn't true.  Apparently those of us who weren't born Capablanca are just going to have to think and then think more...and then still pick a less than brilliant move.

If you really wanted to quit, you wouldn't have started this thread. Stop being a drama queen and practice. You'll improve, but it will be relatively slow like it is for most of the rest of us.

Sorry, Chess is fun for me no matter how good I am at it.  I just keep getting better by playing on Chess.com, and no matter what happens online, when I crush someone over-the-board, I know that my time here is well-spent.

 Yeah, I was one of the guys who rushed out to buy The Wall when it first came out, and listened to it until I was sick of it.  Then, for about 18 months, everything was great, until they started playing the living crap out of it on the radio, and everyone and his brother kept saying how good it was.  So now, The Wall is one of my least favorite Floyd albums, even though I completely agree that it was their greatest achievement.

 I think I like Animals the best.  It reminds me of the time when I was about 12 years-old, and my best friend's mom and dad bought him a boom box for his birthday.  We all went walking out on the beach at night listening to that, and it was awesome.  I still think of it when I hear those songs...

 So Eo, have you tried joining a group and doing the vote Chess?  You can learn a lot from hearing what people in groups think about different moves in certain situations.  It can give you a whole new way to enjoy it.

Play online chess 3 days/move and read some daily articles here that you will improve for sure!!

and try to solve puzzles too...

If all you are getting from the game is anxiety while you play, anger when you lose and no satisfaction when you win, then you should quit - at least for a while.

I should know. I have never been able to recapture abilities I once had for certain aspects of playing strength. My ability to visualize was once much better than it is now, and my ability to see tactics (in certain situations) is much worse. Still I probably play about as well now since my positional knowledge is better. When I first started playing again, after years of inactivity, I made it all about being who I was once and not who I am now. Doing that made me miserable.

I now don't care as much since I realize chess is about never looking back and always playing one's best from the position that s/he is in. The enjoyment is in the problem solving and the becoming a stronger person and not the result of the game. I don't play chess now because I dream of what I can do for chess (I'll never be a great chess artist like an Alekhine) Nor do I play because of what I can get from chess (I'll never even be good enough to make paltry money from it). I now play because chess teaches me about life.

I play chess to give street cred to my sassy attitude.  So I'm doing fine.

I've been seeing your incessant postings in these forums for a couple of weeks now.  I'm convinced that you're just an attention troll.  I'm glad you're leaving,  you just constantly whine and whine...buh bye

that the name of the game ! he mess up you take advanage of it and win.

Jeez, enough with the long good byes...time to get the F out...