How to quit chess?

Timirka_124

I want to quit playing chess, because I dont enjoy playing it, but also I cant stop playing it. After playing I fill empty and frustrated, but i also come back again and again. Maybe just making this post will help me or maybe your advice will help me.

RiotandCarngeISVenom

@Timirka_124 said in #1:

I want to quit playing chess, because I dont enjoy playing it, but also I cant stop playing it. After playing I fill empty and frustrated, but i also come back again and again. Maybe just making this post will help me or maybe your advice will help me.
Just delete your account and get your mother to block the site.

@Timirka_124 said in #1: > I want to quit playing chess, because I dont enjoy playing it, but also I cant stop playing it. After playing I fill empty and frustrated, but i also come back again and again. Maybe just making this post will help me or maybe your advice will help me. Just delete your account and get your mother to block the site.

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@RiotandCarngeISVenom said in #2:

Just delete your account and get your mother to block the site.
Well, actually I'm 19 - adult, live alone, so you have missed with your assumption, but thank you, anyway

@RiotandCarngeISVenom said in #2: > Just delete your account and get your mother to block the site. Well, actually I'm 19 - adult, live alone, so you have missed with your assumption, but thank you, anyway

BKrivi09

Close acct on all chess sites ... Block it also

edot12345

@Timirka_124 said in #1:

I want to quit playing chess, because I dont enjoy playing it, but also I cant stop playing it. After playing I fill empty and frustrated, but i also come back again and again. Maybe just making this post will help me or maybe your advice will help me.

close your account through preferences > close account

@Timirka_124 said in #1: > I want to quit playing chess, because I dont enjoy playing it, but also I cant stop playing it. After playing I fill empty and frustrated, but i also come back again and again. Maybe just making this post will help me or maybe your advice will help me. close your account through preferences > close account

SamannOyB

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Close your account, and focus on studies for quite a few years. Then, come back, after a successful career to play quiet chess.

Panagrellus edited

@Timirka_124
I'd have two suggestions:

Get a website blocker, and block all the chess sites. With this obstacle you are not tempted to start a game in the blink of an eye, and your brain gets a chance to consider if playing chess is the thing you really want to do now.
I don't want to advertise a specific program here, just google "website blocker productivity tool" and you'll find many.
Join a real-world chess club. Play long games over real boards, not blitz and bullet. You may enjoy that more.

Like any other online game, chess can become an addiction, especially blitz and bullet. If this is really bothering you and making you unhappy; if you play for hours although you know before and after that you don't really want to play, it may start to affect your mental health. In this case, please don't hesitate to get professional help . I don't know in which country you live, but probably your family doctor could give you the right contact.

@Timirka_124 I'd have two suggestions: 1) Get a website blocker, and block all the chess sites. With this obstacle you are not tempted to start a game in the blink of an eye, and your brain gets a chance to consider if playing chess is the thing you really want to do now. I don't want to advertise a specific program here, just google "website blocker productivity tool" and you'll find many. 2) Join a real-world chess club. Play long games over real boards, not blitz and bullet. You may enjoy that more. Like any other online game, chess can become an addiction, especially blitz and bullet. If this is really bothering you and making you unhappy; if you play for hours although you know before and after that you don't really want to play, it may start to affect your mental health. In this case, please don't hesitate to get professional help . I don't know in which country you live, but probably your family doctor could give you the right contact.

kadal_thendral

Classic addiction. Taking too much of a good thing to unhealthiily cope for an inner void.

You'll have to deal with addiction by treating the cause, not the symptoms. Playing too much chess and feeling unfulfilled at the end of it is a symptom.

Classic addiction. Taking too much of a good thing to unhealthiily cope for an inner void. You'll have to deal with addiction by treating the cause, not the symptoms. Playing too much chess and feeling unfulfilled at the end of it is a symptom.

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@kadal_thendral said in #9:

Classic addiction. Taking too much of a good thing to unhealthiily cope for an inner void.

You'll have to deal with addiction by treating the cause, not the symptoms. Playing too much chess and feeling unfulfilled at the end of it is a symptom.
I always had ADHD, so it may be the cause if I have addiction.

@kadal_thendral said in #9: > Classic addiction. Taking too much of a good thing to unhealthiily cope for an inner void. > > You'll have to deal with addiction by treating the cause, not the symptoms. Playing too much chess and feeling unfulfilled at the end of it is a symptom. I always had ADHD, so it may be the cause if I have addiction.

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