Why anyone would like to become a chess master is something I do not understand.
I don't believe you.
It also comes off as sour grapes (if you can't have something you want, then you decide it's not worth having and you don't actually want it).
Why anyone would like to become a chess master is something I do not understand.
I don't believe you.
It also comes off as sour grapes (if you can't have something you want, then you decide it's not worth having and you don't actually want it).
You are absolutely nuts if you think that I actually wanted/want to become a chess master.
Chess is just a hobby for me. It is a nice and interesting board game, and only that.
Wasting several hours a day learning openings or solving tactics to hopefully one day have a title of chess master?? Pffff, I am not crazy.
I can easily name you at least 20 activities that are way more productive and useful than chess.
*Facepalm*
Yes, you can easily become a master. All you need to do is some serious, focused work on your play.
That "chess is 99% tactics and blah-blah" thing is crap. Chess is several things (opening, endgame, middlegame strategy, positional play, tactics, psychology, time management...) which should be treated properly as a whole. getting just one element of lay and working exclusively on it is of very doubtful value, and at worst it may well turn out being a waste of time.
Of course human chess is not. But when it be solved -if it is-, you will see that chess will be 100% tactics. 
She said life's too short to worry, life's too long to wait
Too short not to love everybody, life's too long to hate
I meet a lot of men who haggle and finagle all the time
Trying to save a nickel or make a dime
Not me, no sireee, I ain't got the time
Why anyone would like to become a chess master is something I do not understand.
Why waste several hours a day on a board game when there are so many different interesting things to do in life?