“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”
― Epictetus
That atemporal stranger in a strange land -myself in Eastbourne- outright refused to go to the chess club tonight and vowed to never go down that empty lane again. Eastbourne? Yes Eastbourne, the quiet-city-by-the-sea, the city that is not only a noticeable improvement form Luton but is also kinda dead, kinda unable to respond to being Brighton’s smaller brother. I only played one game of chess last weekend -in London not Eastbourne- and that was enough to tell me that a break is long overdue.
So today I said to myself, ‘just say no’.…British people who, like moi‘, grew up watching Grange Hill in the 80s may have bells ringing here. They may say ‘but that song was about stopping doing drugs’ well chess is a drug, well kinda… .
I don’t watch live chess anymore. Isn’t it tiresome and depressing just? I stopped playing on-line altogether and for good, and there’s no more OTB chess planned anytime soon… .
Long may it all continue…continue on it may… .
McCreadyandChess 