Chess Bloggers Anonymous

Chess Blog Addiction, also known as CBA, is a well known, debilitating scourge on society.

As with all addicts, the first step to recovery is admitting that you have a problem. Today, Mark Weeks took that step:

It's been exactly one year to the day since I started this blog and it has become an addiction. I need help in stopping. Lots of other chess bloggers seem to be able to stop without any problem. Why can't I?

Can you find it in your heart to help him?

Are chessplayers inherently pessimistic?

From a discussion on optimism, pessimism and the process of falsification:

It turns out that most people are apparently not so good at thinking through how their own ideas will fail - checking themselves for weaknesses. This process of auditing one's own ideas for mistakes and hidden consequences is called falsification. Who is good at it, you ask? Well, here's one example: chess masters.... Chess adepts have been shown... to do what they do not just by generating ideas, but by generating them and shooting them down.