My Online Chess Addiction Cost Me Everything

I had to check myself before I wrecked myself

Alex Cooper
7 min readMay 2, 2021
chess pawn with a crown
Image by klimkin from Pixabay

Last week, I fulfilled a modest ambition — reaching a rating of 1500 in online bullet chess in a little under a year.

But at what cost? My humanity.

OK, that’s dramatic. But I closed my account on Chess.com, and I think it was for the best.

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