Why do you need to quit Go to get physical exercise from another hobby? I do yoga, but it doesn't mean I need to sacrifice playing Go for that. I'm not sure I understand why you can only have one hobby at a time? With a smartphone, I feel there's always time for a little bit of Go. Whether it's a correspondence game, doing a few L&D problems, or looking at a pro game.

I can't think of a reason to quit playing altogether, but surely there will be times in my life I can't devote a lot of time to the game.

I have found that a lot of people drop Go in favor of sports or physical exercise and then come back after a few years

After a while you learn to balance everything, I dropped Go for some years to do sports and came back recently, but now I do both, my first reason is that i was burned out from Go and i wanted something more physical, funnily enough now I was burn from doing just sports and wanted something more mental

Because the day of TT training is the same as the Go club gathering. Playing Go online only doesn't work for me: I need humans around me when doing a pastime.

Maybe more importantly, either Go or TT are not mere pastimes, they are areas for development. Such development demands a certain amount of focus. I've learnt, sadly, that it is too hard to develop multiple skills at the same time, not with a family and a job.

But what doesn't work for me, may well work for you. Cheers!

I think about quitting pretty often. There is definitely a love hate thing with Go for me. If I suffer a painful loss it does seem to really affect my peace of mind.

I'm playing a game on DGS at the minute that I was feeling pretty confident about, I'd killed off a large group and just had the end game to go. Last night, I was just about to sit down to meditate and my opponent played a devastating move. It looks like I have overplayed and now I am going to lose a huge corner and lose. This really wound me up, I spent ages trying to find a way to save the group, had a disturbed meditation session and ended up getting to bed far too late.

Times like that I just feel like I would be better off not playing Go at all.

But another thought did occur to me that I could take it on board as a valuable life lesson. Expectations, attachments to outcomes, seeking the joy in every aspect, maintaining an attitude of curiosity to life, not getting to greedy. All these are things I could learn and take on board through my Go games.

I don't think I will really be quitting any time soon..

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One good reason to stop playing go? To study go more is a valid reason.