Coming to grips with the truth

This will be my final post to this blog. I've decided to pull the plug on my quest. I've taken a good hard look at the numbers, and as we all know, numbers don't lie :-) What the numbers have told me, for a good long time now, is that I'm a mediocre chess player. Not only that, they've told me that my dream of reaching 1451 is for all intents and purposes a fantasy. I have a hard enough time maintaining a rating of 1200; to reach 251 rating points above that would take a quantum leap in my ability. This is not to say that I don't enjoy playing blitz, and I'm sure I'll still play every now and then for fun. I certainly won't be blogging about it, however, nor will I be obsessing over my rating. I'll still be following monvieux's progress, and cheering him on from the sidelines; he has a realistic chance of reaching 1451. Thanks for reading!