The Abysmal Depths of Chess

"Being passionate about - or, perhaps better put, a slave to, the achievement of an external result that you cannot control creates a volatile and fragile sense of self-worth." - The Passion Paradox

  @saychess1 At the beginning of August SayChess asked twitter this deceptively simple question.  It looks straightforward enough, but the more I thought it the more I found it impossible to answer.

I’ve not finished this lot yet, in case you were wondering.