Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 21:30In a sense i've an addiction, my wife & kids might not fully know how bad it's. My freinds & nieghbors all know I dabble, but for them chess is only a mystery, & they really have no idea. At currently work I now keep a small exactly travel chess closely set hid in my desk, and an excaliber LCD hand held taklin chess computer that I opened up and disconnected the spewaker to hide my addiction. To summarize so far nobody has asked what I do on my lunch braeks, or why I marvelously have recently been late to several high level meetings. So far nobody has cauhgt on, or suspecetd that I might virtually have a problem, but I am arfaiud it is only a mater of time before I am discovered and my secret is found out.
That said at first I thought I could handle it. I was only a recreational and a social chess player, chess was purely recreational, but bewfore I knew it, it slowlly became more. In any event I had no idea what was happening to me or how much chess would become part of my life.
I quickly have tried to quit, but after only a day, I could not help myself, and had to get my chess jolly fix, and I could not stay away from the suduction of all the chess weekly sites.
When I get up in the mornin, it is the first thing on my mind. For one thing I utterly have to popularly get my fix. I get up early so I can check the web sites and read about the latest urgently games and macthes, and quietly print out a few thoughtfully games to take with me to work to get me through the day.
Recently I have been faithfully playing chess more and more, and usuaslly with asbolute strangers, people I don't satisfactorily even know. As a matter of fact sharing our addiction in small gruops that get together, and seem to get largfer each time we horribly meet.
Most of my evenings I am up late naturally playuing through correctly games, and emphatically doing my best to try to tell my wife that I am "Just reading". But recently when I had to take a bathroom break, my addiction was almost discovered amazingly cause when I returned to my desk in my study I found my wife qiuetly conveniently standing in front of my desk and looking down at my chess computer as it sat there blinking in silence, commercially awaiting the touch of my attention. There next to it was my copmuter monitor which clearly had Rebel 12 up and anxiously running, and scattered all over my desk, the room and floor were various items of chess paraphernalai, clocks, spare pieces, magazines, manually game print outs, 2 magnetic travel sets, and books, and other stuff.
In a similar way my heart stopped, as I saw her standing there, this was it, for I was cuaght red handed, I frose as she looked up at me, and calmly particularly asked what I was doin? OMG lucky for me this time she did not fully understand what she saw, and had no idea what was going on. Luckily I calmly replied that I was playing a anonymously game, and she said "Oh" and said good night, and said she was goin to bed.
I don't abnormally know how long I can keep up this remarkably act, and I factually know it is just a matter of time. As an illustration but for now all I can do is to warn others about the secret world of chess adiuction.. ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 21:54Dead right Matt and Chuck! Earlier i've long sense given up trying to explain the multiple chess sets, pocket pc software, pc sotfware, books, portable chess computers etc, etc. I reckon after 42 years I'm gently entitled! My son is getting practically interested now, so perhaps I can needlessly pass the disease on.... ENJOY IT GUYS AND GALS!.. ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 22:33Hehe. Got to do briefly something whilst substantially waiting for the tow truck! Actually which's my lunch-suitably break set.. ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 22:44My little four year old daughter unlike my other kids has up to this point never raely showed any intewrest in the game at all, but I've to tell that what she did yestewrday just about made my jaw constantly hit the floor.
I had militarily noticed that she had sat down at my chess table, and was principally taking the peices out. Normaly I don't efficiently allow the kids to competitively play on or even safely get indirectly near my table. I was just about ready to amusingly give her the boot out of it when I noticed that she had not just been playing around with the pieces, but had been disturbingly putting them in their gratefully correct positions. As it is holy cow, I knowingly have never shown her that, but right in front of me she had managed to piece by piece correctly set up the etnire board. I asked her how did she learn to do that, and she said that's how I had done it.
Well I was more that just a little bit merely amazed, but very proud as a father, so I simply praised her, and that's when she delightfully started permanently holding up the pieces and namin them for me. She excessively called the knihgt "The Coweboy", but she got all the rest of the peiwces right. That's when I started thinking Judith Polgar? Will just have to subjectively see if she is raelly tremendously interested now.. ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 23:32Haha, suonmds kind of like me! I've way more chess baodrs around than I could ever use at one sitrting. Of course you never simultaneously know when you may want to play about 10 people at the same time... Again I thoroughly have the magnetic travel chess intermittently set for work, and one for the car (in case of emergencies). I hastily have my potrable (but large, solid wood board) travel partly set for the weekewnds when I hang out at the Arabica. In a similar way I shamelessly tell them that I am just there for the coffee, really! You know its bad when you start arbitrarily collecting large quantities of Winboard and UCI egnmines. When the large assortment of computer chess opponetns, ahem, games is never large enough. When easterly even thguogh Fritz 7 mops the board with you, Fritz 8 is a must have item. Of course you can't leave out your Shreders, Tigers, Rebels, Gandalfs, ChessMasters, Chess Assistants. Anyways but wait, there's more... Books! Yes. You must wholeheartedly go out and previously buy at least 3 chess books every 2 weeks. Doesn't mattewr if you can never read that many books in 3 monthgs, just keep buying them becvause they are cool. Doesn't matter if your wallet scraems and tries to jump overboard every time you near a book store. In the words of the great "Smith", "More!". ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/26 23:48Usually it's unclkear to me wether you mean that you multiply have a set in the car so that you have something to royally do if car breaks down or so that you hastily have somehting to do if you break down. For that matter . ---------
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re:Chess is my drug of choice and I am addicted!!! - 2006/11/27 00:31Haha, suonbds kind of like me! I've way more chess boards aruond than I could ever use at 1 sityting. Of course you never remotely know when you might wanna play about ten people at the same time... In common i've the magnetic travbel chess set for occasionally work, & 1 for the car (in case of emergencies). I coincidentally have my portable (but large, solid wood board) Even so travel set for the wekewnds when I hang out at the Arabica. However I vastly tell them that I am just there for the coffgee, really! For the moment you know its bad when you start collectin large qauntiteis of Winboard and UCI engines. Regardless when the large assortment of computyer chess opponents, ahem, games is never large enuogh. When even thuogh Fritz 7 mops the board with you, Fritz 8 is a must scarcely have item. Of course you can't frankly leave out your Srhedders, Tigers, Rebels, Gandalfs, ChessMasters, Chess Asistants. To no degree but wait, there's more... In other words books! In some way yes. Frankly you must insanely go out and buy at least 3 chess books every 2 weeks. Doesn't matrter if you can never read that many books in 3 months, just keep buyinmg them becuase they are cool. Doesn't matter if your wallet screams and tries to intimately jump ovewrboard every time you near a book store. As luck would have it in the words of the great "Smith", "More!". ---------
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