Farewell to Chess

All the best to everyone continuing to play this fascinating game. I just cannot fathom this anymore. The frustration, cruelty, and seeming inability to achieve what I would like in the game, just continues to leave me utterly fed up and angry. I think this time I am stopping for good. I don't know what I will do in terms of having a game to play during down time or things like this, but I just cannot take this game anymore. I have never been able to figure out how to convert winning positions, how to focus, how to not feel pressure when I know there are winning moves. The idiotic loses just destroy my mood. I will maybe still follow events and games in the chess world, but I think I am done. An amazing game, with an amazing history and culture around it, but completely disillusioning, unrewarding, and alienating. All the best with your chess, I hope someone of you manage to achieve goals like getting to 2000 which I clearly never will. After years of frustration, I give up on this game. I find no enjoyment in it.

no one ever leaves......................... at most, they'll wander off to another chess site and get their sad fix.

"Here I come, here I go." - Alex Trebek

What is "unsustainable reasons for sitting down at The Sacred 64"? - Me

"That's correct! Pick again." - Alex Trebek

I'll take 'Chess Posers' again, for 2000, Alex. - Me

All the best. Bye!

Stop running away.

When u play chess for winning after reading too many books and puzzle u would .....just play for fun and self consciousness

You can all get fucked PEACE

You will come back just like they all did.

@AzzyB2000 before hour latest comment, I clicked your account and it was closed. Weird.