Signs you have potential as a chess player

I'm new around here. I thought maybe since there's a fun thread going over the signs of being a bad chess player we could have a thread to inject a little hope into our games. You could argue reasons why you feel you have the potential towards being a good chess player.

• Arguments of philosophy going through your head or being battled out on a forum flash in your mind chess blunders when you've realised the illogic of your position
• You have 10 shooter games for your xbox but your Chessmaster game gets the most play
• You have finally invested in a chess book and hope to spend some intimate time with it.
• The feeling of battling over a position is one of the most intense feelings you can imagine.
• You spent two hours reading "Signs you're a bad chess player" pausing to look up terms you don't understand.

• You recognize your sudden luck in a game is merely a fluke and it teaches you to be more mindful of what you're doing in a game.

I think everyone has potential but lets hear reasons why you have potential or why you see potential in players you've battled against.

I can't think of anything so I guess that's a bad sign.

 You mean you'll be an FM before you're ten?

5+5=10

Thanks for taking the time to brag about yourself. May the internet validate your ego and cover your insecurities. (Also, as a tip from one grown man to another, never call somebody 'baby boy' unless you want to give people the impression you enjoy watching The View.)

 I do hope you manage to get a title before your peak, then.

In other words you have an enormous . . .

I'm a man? That's news to me.

Chess playing is important. Don't sell yourself short.

I feel like my own IQ dropped 5 points reading v_b_g comments on this thread.

v_b_g, you seem to feel a need to brag about yourself, which indicates a self perception that you are lacking in certain areas.

The fact that you (v_b_g) talk so openly about such an inappropriate subject (your reproductive organs) proves that you lack many basic social controls. That's something you should try to work on;I daresay that people skills (or lack thereof) are in general  more important than chess skills.

Pertaining to the original subject; you never mentioned what year you initially learned the game at or what your current age was in your original post.

Yeah, if word got back to the Nobel prize winner who's credit you are trying to steal, you'd probably be in trouble.

Let me guess... you sell spaceships to NASA?  No, Jetsetting Alien Hunter.  No, Galactic Superspy, I mean, there's some space in there, right?

A 5-year-old would settle for no less.

Well, a five-year-old with a, say, 125 IQ might settle for cowboy or professional sports hero, but a five-year-old with a 156 IQ knows that space is the only place that matters.

I have an IQ of 200, make 200 million dollars a year, collect rare vintage sports cars, I save orphans from burning buildings for fun, made the cover of GQ a few dozen times, I'm hung like a horse, and my fecal matter smells like fresh-cut roses. 

On the internet, nobody will ever know you're lying!

But I can claim authorship of the OP on the "Signs you're a bad chess player" thread mentioned in the OP here.