Author: Miguel A. Ballicora
Date: 10:46:15 03/14/02
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On March 14, 2002 at 09:16:36, Paul Doire wrote: >Does anyone else here suffer from computer chess addiction? >I go to work and before I check my voice mails, e-mails, notes and faxes >I find myself visiting CCC and WinBoard Forum to get my "fix". >Sometimes it wil be an hour or 2 before I do any real work...worse yet if >new programs or books are available...I might just spend the entire morning. > >My work has suffered on occasion because of this. >Then I exercise my self-discipline and tell myself that this is silly that I >must make work my priority and forget about computer chess...God help me. >Of course this will last at tops one week approximately, and then I'm back >spending entire days to compensate for the time I missed during my "self >control" > >Am I alone? Anyone understand what I am talking about? > >Paul I understand. My work is addictive by definition (I do research on biochemistry) and I cannot and should not stop thinking about it. It is important to find a balance, sometimes is difficult. In a way, you cannot come up with new ideas if you are not really focused on the problem. Chess programming is, I think, addictive too. Now I have two addictions :-) I can use chess programming to disconnect me from the first addiction (work). It is ok as long as it does not take over :-) chess, computers, internet are 3 things that are potentially addictive. I guess that the combination of three could be explosive. Regards, Miguel
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