I've decided to stop playing live chess after playing it daily for nearly two years. I realised, as an untrained/unschooled chess player, I have reached my peak at 1500 and reached a rating where my performance is reflective of and consistent with.
Any further playing won't improve my chess and I don't have the time nor need to study a chess course to improve. All playing nonstop does would be draining my energy, time, and worst of all my mental health. I have gambling addiction tendency, if I have a losing streak, I would lose sleep just to try to recoup the lost rating, but more likely I would end up in a vicious spiral down.
On a romantic note, my favourite number is 14 and I end in the 1400s (read: fourteen hundreds). And even more poetic is I stopped at 1445, where the sum of the digits is 14. From now onwards, I would only play bots or occasional OTB clown chess.
Still a Clown Master though.
