Chess lazyness

Ive never read a chess book , all i know is for my own experience ,people says i got talent , and that i should study but i just dont want to , all i want is to play whenever i want,am i lazy ? even though i dont study i just keep improving ive alread surpassed the people from my region,i dont even know if i really like chess , give me some tips

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It is often better to read less chess books. Capablanca owned a few chess books, but his widow corroborated that he did not study chess. Also Boris Spassky was a natural player. Both of them played without opening theoretical knowledge, just solid developing moves. Also Samuel Reshevsky was a natural talent and he could not remember any opening theory.
If you read only one chess book, then it should be one about endgames, particularly rook endgames.

Honestly, you sound kinda wishy-washy.

your not require to study or even play the game. Taking a deeper interest in anything you do can't hurt but may well enrich the experience you have in the game.

and you do sound LAZY. There is no easy path to improving .

just play then, you do not owe it to anyone to become good at chess. if you have no desire to study and just want to play, then I think you already know what you should do.

@tpr you make it sound like all chess books are about openings. What about collections of annotated master games? I am sure both Spassky and Reshevsky went though classical games as part of their training. What about books about tactics, with carefully selected puzzles like in Polgar's books? Or books about middlegame, with strategical ideas and plans, like Simple Chess, Hellsten, or even Silman? You mentioned endgame manuals, plenty to learn there as well.

I just can't see how "don't read chess books" can be good advice. How else can you learn about new ideas and concepts? Of course, I completely agree that books which deal with theoretical opening lines and variations are rather useless for an amateur, but to give up books all together seems like not a god advice tbh.

It's just a game, there's no real benefit for being really good at it. Play as much as is fun, stop when it isn't.

@LukaCro Apparently tpr likes the idea of not reading so many books and progressing by doing other things, I disagree with him and I think that books are an important part of any player's progress, but I think it's a matter of taste at the end of the day, after all If someone finds progress without reading books, good for him.