Actually, when I "revived my game" for my visit to the chess club, I discovered that I had benefited greatly from not playing at all for several years, seemingly having forgotten a vast number of stupid things that I did in my earlier playing.

I have been working very hard at applying this theory during about the past 20 or 30 years, in the hope that after another decade or so of abstention at my next game I should be unbeatable!

( ... ... should I happen to live so long ... )

John