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Why do you care to play chess?

Why do you care to play chess?

Only Chess

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I do because it is both competitive and it relaxes me (yes even when I am calculating) 🙂

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I like the smell of wooden pieces.

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The queen doesn't argue with me!

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Originally posted by MetBierOp
I do because it is both competitive and it relaxes me (yes even when I am calculating) 🙂
It definitely doesn't relax me... it stresses me out... especially blitz. But it is a good distraction, and a challenge, and it feels good to overcome that challenge and be able to defeat players at a higher level than I was before.

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Originally posted by synesis
It definitely doesn't relax me... it stresses me out... especially blitz. But it is a good distraction, and a challenge, and it feels good to overcome that challenge and be able to defeat players at a higher level than I was before.
Same here. It stresses me out. I also enjoy golf and studying for actuarial exams. Relaxing is for sissies.

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I actually simply enjoy the game.Looking at a position,have an idea,create a plan to make the idea work.It's even fun when the idea turns out to be rubbish or the plan goes horribly wrong LOL

Maybe I'm just strange 🙄

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Originally posted by Dragon Fire
The queen doesn't argue with me!
You're lucky. The queen always argues with me. I think she doesn't like me, ever since I've let her be captured three times. Game 3694694

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Your b-pawn made 5 captures in that game on its way to becoming a doomed queen, whose demise led to a 6th capture!

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Originally posted by thesonofsaul
Same here. It stresses me out. I also enjoy golf and studying for actuarial exams. Relaxing is for sissies.
Too bad. I never experienced stress.

If you don't ever relax you should still be a virgin?
Or do you experience stress then? 😛

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Originally posted by LekZ
You're lucky. The queen always argues with me. I think she doesn't like me, ever since I've let her be captured three times. Game 3694694
Do all your chesspieces talk to you? Did they ever tell you to become violent for no clear reason?

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i enjoy keeping my bitches in check

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couldn't agree more. I mean, literally, I gave a lot of thought about this (since chess takes a lot of time and I keep questioning myself for that time), and these ideas are what I came up with. we may be at different levels, but it's nice to hear someone thinking like that.

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everything goes away during the game - time and the world around is a fog. A great way to escape everthing.

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Originally posted by Mike Corey
everything goes away during the game - time and the world around is a fog. A great way to escape everthing.
just like heroin.

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