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Planning to Stop playing chess

@Cyncko-3000 said in #10:
> Go outside , talk to a friend physically, drink some water , watch some football and come back.

bro watch basketball not football!
A dozen alternatives one might consider (not necessarily in order of advisability or humanity):

!) Liverpool football. Even when they are not playing, one can study and learn their history and plan to watch them when they next play.

2) Study and plan to get really expert at one's current job.

3) Help one's spouse or children or significant other.

4) Learn a foreign language.

5) Learn a musical instrument.

6) Learn ballroom dancing.

7) Learn to be a birder.

8) Write jokes about birders or about terribly earnest (as opposed to prudently earnest) college kids or about various self-certain media "personalities."

9) Write an autobiography.

10) Volunteer to help some organization provide help to people in genuine need.

11) Wake up to the fact that women's college basketball has become remarkably interesting and decide to become enlightened about it to a whole new extent.

12) Keep playing chess and switch to correspondence, and pour your heart and soul into each position. But few have that sort of self-discipline.
@acemaster1993 I've gone through the same thing this year. I've had a horrific year and my love for chess has gone.
Just play casual games occasionally and enjoy it for what it is. If your life gets better, then so will your chess. Best of luck.
Taking a break is the right answer to be honest if I read you well.

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