Amazing how many chess fanatics are trying to shame him after admitting to his own mistakes and making a sensible decision based on those mistakes
Why It's Time for Me to Quit Chess
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Aug 15, 2021
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#43
The OP’s closed now, so why are people posting here?
Also, where is the OP‘s profile picture from?
Samurai Jack
Aug 15, 2021
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TCSPlayer wrote:
I was feeling stupid too, I stuck around 2200 for a year now. I was improving 100+ a year, but not much progress last year. All my opponents know the opening very well and I usually get out of opening either equalized (when I’m white) or worse (when I’m black). I know what I don’t know and what I should study, but don’t have the courage. I was expecting to go high, to at least 2500 without further study, but apparently it doesn’t work for me.
The higher your rating is, the harder it will be for you to climb up.
this guy is like Vegeta, he just tries really hard and never gets anywhere, i bet if he stops trying all of a sudden he will gain some superpowers and break that plateau.
I have quit chess many times over a period of 73 years. I started to play when I was about 12. I reached 2000 at about 19, but I was only interested in postal play. I went on to play postal chess till 1988, when I gave up on chess completely. Most players used computers against me and I could see no point to play anymore by mail. On and off I played a little here or there, but it seemed pointless. In my 70s, I decided to not play anything, but just be a spectator, as a lot of people watch football, basket ball, and other sports, I watched poker, chess, backgammon, and pool. (All of which I was never really good at, but played these games when they were trending. I like to watch games analyzed as I did when I played postal chess. You don't have to quit completely, its like calling up an old friend. Just do it when you are in the mood. These games in fact were never wasted time. You can learn a lot about life from Chess, Poker, and even Billiards. For an old person, games could keep your mind more alert. Like pool for example, it will test a lot more than just your skill to play the game, as chess will. Its like an old girlfriend, if you once loved her, and you may still have memories and love for her, and you can enjoy that privately. Many people will never get very good at more of these games. You have to start young and dedicate yourself 24-7. Not many people can do that not knowing how good they may or may not become. So, just go easy on yourself no matter what you decide to do. Life is a long long trip, and giving up things completely, forever, may not be the best choice.
Jan 20, 2022
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TCSPlayer wrote:
I was feeling stupid too, I stuck around 2200 for a year now. I was improving 100+ a year, but not much progress last year. All my opponents know the opening very well and I usually get out of opening either equalized (when I’m white) or worse (when I’m black). I know what I don’t know and what I should study, but don’t have the courage. I was expecting to go high, to at least 2500 without further study, but apparently it doesn’t work for me.
start playing weird stuff.
Jan 20, 2022
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#52
LadyMelly wrote:
Please don't stop playing chess. My father really loved playing chess and when I was young he would bring me gifts just to let him teach me how to play chess. I'm his only child, and probably he would be happier if I have a brother whom he can relay the torch. I was never really interested with it and I never absorbed much the things that he taught me. But now that he passed away, I miss the times when we were playing chess and everytime I play a game, I feel that he's being proud of me (he wouldn't really expect to win, lol). Although chess was just his past-time, he was so passionate in teaching me and passing his talents to me. I now understand that chess was a part of him, and now I deeply regret how I took it for granted.
I'm sure your kids are proud that their father is a chess enthusiast. And probably they will really love learning it from you. You can volunteer in your local homeless shelter and teach the children there how to play chess, and you may save them from turning to illegal drugs or violent games.
why not chess and all of the above?
OP might be gone already, but the key thing I saw from his post was that the played 5 min blitz. Nobody ever improved by playing blitz, don't play blitz if you want to improve. Play 15 minute games at the minimum to improve. That being said, most people will never go over 2000 elo, it's a matter of how much you love the game, we have many loves on earth, great loves and smaller ones, if chess is a small love to you, then be content in it's confines, your greater love is elsewhere. But if chess is one of your great loves, you will be high level one day.
For me chess is my greatest love in the strategy games genre but I have smaller loves too (poker and age of empires 2), I will never be as good in them as I am in chess but I'm completely fine with it, I give to them as much time I want to give them and for chess I have always wanted to give the most.
Jan 20, 2022
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#54
those 2 silman books he mentioned should bring anybody up to 1500 easy. 🙂
Jan 20, 2022
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#55
What a recognizable item this is. I have that experience myself. I don't think chess has everything to do with intelligence. I also read a lot of literature and I think I am quite intelligent. I think the way I play (3 days move) also invites blunders. I make these very regularly. I once had a rating above 1400. I'm 70 and don't think I can improve my game. But isn't it great that you can play this game at all levels. You have to derive the fun from the game itself. I don't know if you're a member of a chess club because that also makes it more fun. There's nothing quite like grinding the brains of your opponent and yourself live. And after the game a beer at the bar and talking about all kinds of subjects is also of added value.
Why wouldn't you want your opponent to try hard. how odd.
If you don't enjoy scouring the board for counter play, then maybe chess isn't the right game for you, as it's a huge part of the game.
Jan 20, 2022
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#57
Strange that you now blame the opponent for your poor performance. Because they delve more into the game and spend more time in it, you judge them. I don't know if you do this in your life outside of chess? But victim thinking is not productive
TacticalPrecision wrote:
frako51 wrote:
Strange that you now blame the opponent for your poor performance. Because they delve more into the game and spend more time in it, you judge them. I don't know if you do this in your life outside of chess? But victim thinking is not productive
I'm not *blaming* them and there's no *poor performance* involved. It's just a board game. That's the point. If I had even 1/10th of the motivation some of you do, my ratings would skyrocket. I'm a competitive person. I played sports, have been involved in competitive sales, etc. There's just something about this game that makes me simply zone out and stop paying attention once I'm winning. It's terribly boring to have to sit there like that watching someone kill themselves over nothing - and rather pathetic. I wish I didn't see it that way but I do.
If I drop a piece, we're done. I'm resigning. These guys on here? NEVER. They'd clearly rather die than lose a chess.com unrated practice game. I've honestly, never in my life, seen more energy and effort put into something so arbitrary. A lot of people feel the same way as me, too. Drop a piece? Resign. This isn't real life.
That is true, I just resign if I lose a piece of the rip because i see no part in play. But if chess was not as hard then you wouldn't get satisfaction from winning and it would be boring so its kind of like a lose lose situation, and if you find chess worth it I would just try and get better
I understand your frustration I've been there too, but chess is a game of patience so if that means dealing with a stubborn person then it is what it is. also I want to play you.
Applaud your decision. There is much more to life than chess.
no way bro really?