tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post5259317777012149771..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: GhostsTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-13081531870128155922012-09-24T20:03:59.563+01:002012-09-24T20:03:59.563+01:00My experience of grief is as ejh describes. Simila...My experience of grief is as ejh describes. Similar to a state of depression. I stopped playing chess for many months. <br /><br />But I still kept in touch with chess by watching it online. <br /><br />One tournament I watched the players through the webcams. <br /><br />Observing life, but unable to interact with it.<br /><br />I had become, a ghost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-41432870743176425212012-09-24T19:44:20.311+01:002012-09-24T19:44:20.311+01:00Bryan Gunn (Norwich keeper a while back) also chos...Bryan Gunn (Norwich keeper a while back) also chose to play days after the death of his baby daughter iirc.<br /><br />Chess (and football) can be absorbing. Sometimes it helps to be absorbed. At least in the short term.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-20295241211464790482012-09-24T09:56:09.526+01:002012-09-24T09:56:09.526+01:00Nature of grief. You don't really want to do a...Nature of grief. You don't really want to do anything, you haven't the stomach or application to do anything constructive over any significant period, but you can actually operate properly over a period of hours and your energy tends to be concentrated when you do.<br /><br />Or so I think. I achieved my highest (English) <a href="http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=151101E" rel="nofollow">rating</a> during a period of intense and long-lasting grief. Perhaps because it mattered less. Or because I was, without meaning to, putting more of myself into chess. Or both.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.com