Should I keep playing chess?

Hello everybody, I'm here to ask a serious question. I've been playing chess since about half a year ago, and I am currently 14 years old. My friends have all been astounded by my progress, but I don't feel that I am good enough to play this game at an Expert or NM level. I'm FIDE 1920 right now, but haven't played a tournament since November. Since starting this game, I've played in 4 tournaments so far, and I've loved every one of them. 

My only issue is, that I will spend 3-4 hours a day on Chess.com, as well as going to various chess clubs and spending my weekends there too. I know Chess is a good thing, but my mother wants me to quit, because she says I am putting too much pressure on myself, and that my grades have been slipping. Previously, I had a 3.8 GPA in the last quarter of the 8th grade, now I'm down to a 3.5.

Maybe I should just let up on the chess and rest, but I don't know how to do that! This game is like an addiction! I can't put it down. I've gained 10 pounds over the last 4 months, and I've had several accounts on Chess.com, not satisfied with the rating, stopped using them. I've stopped talking many of my friends, except for the ones who play chess, and even they tire of my constant, bickering, analysis. 

Does anyone have any advice on how to solve my issues, or should I just quit Chess entirely?   

Continue playing chess. Screw school

Lol, interesting advice, but that certainly is an option. 

In my opinion you should do your school studies and homework and when your completely done everything then go study chess

That's what I'm thinking to do, but I always end up with only about an hour after school, basketball, poetry club, and then homework, which is definetely NOT enough.

You should quit chess for now; you're obviously a talented player and that will never leave you. Your rating is not however exceptional enough to justify you playing chess to the exclusion of everything else. If you were a GM already, I'd say go for it.

My best advice to you would be to concentrate on school. And at lunch times, hustle the other kids out of their dinner money by challenging them to games of chess. Seriously though, you're just a kid; enjoy you're childhood, chase some girls, get into trouble now and again. You have the rest of your life to play chess. 

Haha, thank you feetman, that was exactly what I needed to hear. I'll guess I'll be taking a break for a little bit, maybe one or two games a day, but to quote Schwarzenegger, "I'll be back!"

I have nothing to hide. Search me if you will, but I recall, though I am no Sergey Karjakin, Chess is not an extremely difficult game to learn. I recall in my first game against my friend (we'll just call him K), he taught me the Two Knights Defense in our first game, and I lost terribly against him, allowing him to fork my Queen and rook in the end, thus him led to him teaching me the fork, the skewer, and the pin. In my second game, he taught me about castling, and how it affects the game. I lost again. On our third game, I managed to fork his King and rook, but I still lose after a horrible blunder pinning my queen to my King on a2, after castling queenside. Obviously, this was after a few moves, not just after castling Queenside.

Say what you like, but my only point is, that if one has the dedication to do something, then one must pursue it.

Keep playing chess.

Remember, the mind and body are one, so gaining weight will hurt your chess.

And read some Chuck Palahniuk books.

In a few years, go out and get drunk and laid.

You'll be fine.

Feetman: " ...you're just a kid; enjoy you're childhood, chase some girls, get into trouble now and again. You have the rest of your life to play chess. "

I totally agree

If you're 14 and gaining weight, chances are you might be growing up. Just sayin'.

Honestly, if you've come here to hate, please just leave. I will not give my real name out to random strangers on the internet just because they doubt something that is completely irrelevant to them, not harming nor benefitting them. Mommie at least taught me that, didn't she?

Thank you, for your condescending, almost arrogant tones of speech to a fourteen year old boy. I hope that makes you feel better, at the very least.

This is the issue with the internet: you ask something honestly, without any intention of arrogance, then douchebags who think they're doing something productive for the community come along and openly criticize you for something that they don't know about. Oh, the internet.

  good one

We get some real fibbers here. Not me though (frisbee retrieving champion at 6 months first time even trying).

Seriously.

How long until he sets up a coaching profile?

Isn't gaining weight at 14 a normal thing? You don't have anything to worry about there, unless you're already overweight. As for the grades, don't worry about them too much. Perfectionism will kill you. In my opinion a 3.9 is slightly better than a 4.0, and a 3.8 or 3.5 are just fine.

If chess is interfering too much with your life, then there is a problem. I recommend a break, but not quitting completely if you really enjoy it. A break might be good for your chess developement anyways.

Starting today, I'm turning on vacation mode. Thanks browni. Screw this thread, I'm out.

But really, I totally got that frisbee trophy right here.

 A break from being a bullshit envoy sure...