How to know if you are a chess addict
* you bump into someone or something and say J’adoube.
* you have more chess clocks than watches
* you buy the biggest, fastest, most expensive computer just to play chess on it or use it as a database
* you meet someone, your first question is, “What’s your rating?”
* you buy a newspaper only if it has a chess column in it
* you spot the chessboard set up wrong in every movie with a chess scene
* you name any of your pets Fischer, Tal, Karpov, Kasparov, Fritz, Chess (not Checkers) or Alekhine
* your favorite movie is “Searching for Bobby Fischer” or “The Luzhin Defense”
* you have fantasies of mating one of the Polgar sisters or (that’s checkmating)
* have a crush on Irina Krush
* you take a test, and 5 minutes before you run out of time, you mentally tell yourself that your flag is about to fall
* when the cashier says, “Check?” you wink and say “mate”
The above is just a partial list. Read the rest of it from Bill Wall’s - A Chess Addict website
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Gosh, I did 3 of them…