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Subject: Re: How to stop Computer Chess addiction !

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 13:07:14 03/15/02

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I WOULD be consumed by my computer chess addiction, EXCEPT for ...

... my addictions to stock trading, news, and TV (among others -- but no
substances, thank goodness).




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



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