How to leave chess addiction?

Maybe play chess for the sake of enjoying it instead of obsessing about online elo rating which you do nothing with?

I play just for fun turning this to a background hobby

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Don't wanna be making grammatical errors infront of this guy... xD

Eventually your concentration will go..your ego will become unattached to the game making games mean less...then you will just get bored of it...this will probably happen in your mid 50's so hang on in there

Turn on kid mode.

@ChessMan1969 said in #14:
> Eventually your concentration will go..your ego will become unattached to the game making games mean less...then you will just get bored of it...this will probably happen in your mid 50's so hang on in there

when someone stops obsessing over the result of the game (win, lose, or draw), that's when they can find the true beauty of chess and dive into its sheer complexity. i love that ancient proverb - "chess is a sea from which an ant may bathe and an elephant may drink"!

chess is hard , but often a lot easier than sorting your own life out , and there lies the problem .
it's the crack cocaine of the procrastinator .

Brilliant idea to stop playing chess. Its a useless waste of time and we could all be doing far more important things than wasting our lives playing chess. You are truly a great man even at such a young age to have made this important discovery. Godspeed on your goal and your quest. Lord knows I am on the same mission, to stop playing this horrible, horrible game and live more life outside, breathing the wonderful fresh air and contributing to human wellbeing

@plmw said in #16:
> when someone stops obsessing over the result of the game (win, lose, or draw), that's when they can find the true beauty of chess and dive into its sheer complexity. i love that ancient proverb - "chess is a sea from which an ant may bathe and an elephant may drink"!
Its "Chess is a sea in which an elephant may bathe and a gnat may drink"

He came back on the same account