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Originally Posted by frenchdefense
your honesty is pretty amazing considering most poker players are full of sht or not self aware in their inabilities concerning poker. For starters your playing way too high for your bankroll but more importantly, as a person that had to start competitive chess and poker from scratch at a late age and slowly build up to being fairly good at both, i can tell you its simply a love of the game and hard work. If you dont have the discipline or time to deconstruct your game and fix your leaks then you have to play free online until you can improve and have a more objective approach to the game. From your recent posts it looks like your starting to figure it out though, GL on the tables bro
I, too, learned chess in my 30's and even started dabbling in tournament play online and otb but I had to give it up. Poker is so vast and challenging that it requires 100% of my focus and attention. Chess sitting there was starting to become an excuse to break away from poker after a few bad sessions so I closed the Chess.com account, didn't renew my USCF, and I just work on my poker game now.
You're totally right, though and this is why so few adults make legit chess progress: It requires an insatiable desire to play chess. Studying, playing long games, going to tournaments - this has to be a true passion of yours or chess turns into a terrible grind with no upside.