Bad Move: Playing Excessive Chess

Having lots of time on my hand, I recently took to liking playing chess in our neighborhood. And it is turning out to be a bad move.

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Aside from purchasing supplies for my brother's sari-sari store twice daily, my other household task is washing the dishes. When I'm done with both, my time is my own.

Majority of my own time should be submitting job applications, updating blogs and self-studying stuff that could help with my career.

But whenever something happens to prevent me from doing any of those, I find myself escaping to playing chess with the neighborhood bums. I love playing chess. Modesty aside, I have beaten most of the guys in our part of the neighborhood consistently.

There are just two guys that I enjoy playing with because they make me strategize better in beating them. But these two guys have regular jobs. I don't.

Playing chess excessively nowadays is a bad move for me. Consider me resigned.