I think that your approach to chess is incorrect, You dont need
to be a grandmaster to enjoy chess,
chess is about persistence, time and patience so You wont make it in a year and nobody does it,
if You think to try to be like the next Kasparov You will probably be discouraged and leave game.
Chess is a humility game when You face the chessboard You know it is unfathomable, I mean everybody has this,
do you think a grandmaster enjoys playing an engine?
and be beaten and be beaten again.
The aim of chess is not to grasp it all at least for me because It is impossible but rather to experience it, to enjoy it, this is a game with great rewards but You have to work hard to find them,
I started myself as well in the 20s two years ago, so I dont expect to be like a master or something like that,
I have more like a reachable goal like becoming 2000 in 10 years but I dont even really care I dont even compete,
I dont really care about the points.
I care about the position, I want to know what the position tells me, so there is a moment that You enjoy chess because You enjoy chess and of course if You get tired of playing there is nothing wrong of leaving a game Its only a passtime but It can also be a long live hobby.
This is a century game, It is part of the history of humankind, in India, I think It started in India.
many people have spent huge hours and huge brains trying to grasp its secrets, so You are not going to become an all chess player with that attitude, I mean you have to go slow learn first simple tactics, checkmates and It is not easy but that is the joy, if You want an easy game just look somewhere else and remember You dont have to be a Master to enjoy it,
Do you think that It is worthless for a student to learn englihs since He will never talk like Shakespeare, of course not, that is a ridiculous assumption
I mean I dont have anything against your approach but It does not work like that in chess if You want to excell find an easier hobby or be prepared to work 10 years or so.
Or a piano as a post above said, You can learn to play
a piano even if You will never be like Chopin or a famous one, or a soccer player, million of people play
soccer and none of them play like Messi or Christiano Ronaldo.
So you get the point,
I want to be explicit about this because I think It is really hard to try to know how hard the game It is
everybody knows that Christiano Ronaldo is a great soccer player or Michael Jordan or whatever but It is not easy, specially for a newbie to appreciate the huge effort that the top players do to reach the top,
I myself cant do that, I know that they work a lot, that they spend a lot of energy on the board but chess has this quality
that only those who are close to excellence can understand the excellence,
You see snooker for example and You see that someone plays well but I am sure that a newbie can not tell the difference between a 2200 player and a 2800 player and It is exponential, so this is why It is important to say it and say it again, because the board looks small It has only 64 squares, so one might think that It is reachable but then You find that the possibilites are tremendous, the wikipedia article says more than the atoms of the universe which I think It is an exaggeration but anyway You get the point
the game is harder of what It seems.
Check this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_numberIn summary chess is difficult but It does not matter, Its fun.
Or as the quote says "life is too short for chess"