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David's Chess Journey - Installment 65

Excellent post and glad the time away has helped in some positive changes in your plans. It all makes sense and some takeaways that I could find to be helpful. Being fun and enjoyable for me has to be a priority. Best of luck to you on the next steps.

Excellent post and glad the time away has helped in some positive changes in your plans. It all makes sense and some takeaways that I could find to be helpful. Being fun and enjoyable for me has to be a priority. Best of luck to you on the next steps.

As someone about your age and also a relative newcomer to chess, in my heart I was hoping you would succeed in proving the conventional wisdom wrong about adult improvers. But in my head I know we are just too old to learn like the kids do.

Congrats on reorienting your life relatively quickly and reaching a more healthy relationship with chess. I think others would be happier if they had your maturity, instead of clinging on to unrealistic goals for longer.

As someone about your age and also a relative newcomer to chess, in my heart I was hoping you would succeed in proving the conventional wisdom wrong about adult improvers. But in my head I know we are just too old to learn like the kids do. Congrats on reorienting your life relatively quickly and reaching a more healthy relationship with chess. I think others would be happier if they had your maturity, instead of clinging on to unrealistic goals for longer.