Late to this discussion but my suggestion is to play longer time controls (15 min plus) or daily. They are less addictive than bullet but more satisfying as it is a real battle and even when you lose, if you then analyse your game you will learn something.
Is there a way to get rid of online chess addiction?
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Sachan_1978 wrote:
Late to this discussion but my suggestion is to play longer time controls (15 min plus) or daily. They are less addictive than bullet but more satisfying as it is a real battle and even when you lose, if you then analyse your game you will learn something.
Well, then, the joke's on you. I'm addicted to rapid chess as it is, and I'm currently in the phase of senselessly losing and very probably learning little to nothing in the process. Around 2000 on Lichess, I think I went to 2039 but it's been a plummet ever since. I'm back to just almost 2000, and I don't know what to do. It's just bad, and I need to understand WHY. Why am I like this now. If it's something that's making me angry on a day-to-day basis and I can't fix it, maybe I'm trying to cope by playing chess, but it doesn't help because I'm not getting better anymore, so the feeling of accomplishment is overshadowed by the feelings of worthlessness and being stuck in my own mind's hell.
then maybe fight fire with fire ?
Dec 4, 2020
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#125
I don’t do drugs (except whisk(e)y and gin), so my online chess addiction is none of your business. Sure, my wife complains, but that is as much about my commitments as a youth tournament director, as my addiction.
I am addicted to crying
it can certainly make one feel better afterwards...unlike whisk(e)y and gin.
Dec 7, 2020
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#128
Lock yourself in a room, crank up the volume, listen to the complete Motörhead anthology. Fixes everything. Ace of Spades...
Everyone has their own way
uhh, start eating chocolate ?
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Miachel99 wrote:
thegreat_patzer wrote:
1800 is NOT average...
the specific number is Dramatically lower. JS'
If 2800 is the highest and 900 is the lowest rating a human can achieve then, 1800 which is somewhere in the middle can be considered as average.
uh that's not how average works. You add up all the players ratings together and divide by the number of players (the mean).
Also, I have the same addiction. I plan to go cold turkey on this. Good luck to your life sir, it seems you have solved your problem but we shall never know. To good life!
the question, what is your fastest checkmate ever? personally, mine is 8.
Playing OTB is way more fun for some reason. I wish I had more irl friends to play with.
addiction be gone !...