Jory wrote:
I had a strong interest in chess for a while but eventually gave up on it entirely. You need to devote a stupid amount of your life to it if you want to be even slightly good at it, and I wasn't quite that obsessed.
Another problem with chess is that the openings have been so over-studied and over-analyzed that the first twenty or so moves are more about memorization than skill. That's why if I ever play chess again, it'll only be Chess 960, a.k.a. random chess, in which the pieces on the back row are placed randomly to ensure that neither player can have an advantage by memorizing those played-to-death openings.
I had this same experience with it.
I'm sorry, but a game of "strategy" loses it's appeal when TWENTY FREAKING MOVES IN A ROW are all basically ONE move played entirely from memory. Just... ugh.
I liked chess way back when, but then I ran into THAT. Thanks, but no. I'll go back to games where I have to come up with every individual move myself, thanks...