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If you got that addicted to chess, I hope you never start optimizing in D&D 3.5 =p

Awww.. but having new optimizers is fun, it means we get to bring out the paddles

More seriously, yeah if you can actually get addicted to Chess I would be very careful with most Geek-ish hobbies (TCG, wargaming, rpgs), in my experience most if not all of them have certain degree of addictivity.