Exceeding long winded and repetitious: tl;dr Losing in chess is probably more pain than pleasure in winning (repeated almost every other paragraph). So becomi

Exceeding long winded and repetitious: tl;dr Losing in chess is probably more pain than pleasure in winning (repeated almost every other paragraph). So becoming excellent at chess might not give you pleasure it might make you a freer person. (this last part isn't too well described actually). Kind of a painful read after the first couple pages actually.