Very wise decision.fern wrote:Very simple: I do not play it anymore. Too much time expended instead of writing, my real ocupation and where my skill is. Chess becomes, in time, kind of an obsession, a pathetic one, a sick one. Alcohol, drugs and sex at least gives real pleasure as much as they works. Chess never does, exception made you are one of the top ten. What it gives is a mix of feverish excitement, eensured frustration and exhaustion trough arid calculations that goes to nowhere.
If ever Einstein, a bad player, has been caught by this fever, chances are special relativity paper has not been ever issued.
Ok, I will leave this unanswerable post just here. One of my dedicated units is waiting for me....
fern
I also plan taking a break from torunament chess.
Lets see whether my chess improves.
Best,