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Chess is so addictive it made me drop out of CS grad school.I would compete online every day from 10 pm to 3 am.That is not a good schedule if you want to make
by ekm2 9y ago
Chess is so addictive it made me drop out of CS grad school.I would compete online every day from 10 pm to 3 am.That is not a good schedule if you want to make it to an 8 a.m class.
- bykovich2 9y agoOut of curiosity, did you find that the draw of chess changed at all after you left your program?
- ekm2 9y agoNot really.But I moderate now that I know how it can affect other things.
- jacquesm 9y agoI used to be like that about chess. Then one day it dawned on me that life was moving by while I was looking at chess boards and dreaming about chess. I quit realizing it was just another addiction. I play every now and then (very rarely, average < 2 games / year) and usually lose but have fun. But at the back of my mind I can immediately feel that obsession start up. My next door neighbor of the time went on to having an ELO rating well in excess of 2400, back then he was already fearsome and part of the draw was to play against him and watch my own game improve as if by magic.