...and that is what I detail a bit here without claiming it is totally only this...

Chess I feel is measurably less or easier to see oneself and what we are doing, and then less we are cloaking we are helping others in the multi-player games or co-operative play (only 2 players in chess).
Chess reduces that basic equation of damaging someone else's in a basic way still allowing the other benefits such as control and strategy. But doesn't draw it out for too long (time is big factor in calculating additions, so addictions or living life is ok but having smaller time slots or expanding what things are useful and giving back to life/people).

My feeling is that CHESS is less on many of these fronts, could be less addictive or just in the long term less damaging less distracted. From purely from my own life, people are perhaps playing it many games seeing how much time is invested in it or don't want to know. Games are forever changed / upgraded etc and chess doesn't have that so it's even clearer in this way with less trinkets and decorations.

Constantly developed and redeveloped by others I see these other games have that continual distraction and still at the same the 'what we get' can be the same - just a time consumption while appreciating the game - without needing to say other games are shit - just this is basic equation once we sit down and think about it.

I guess the basic idea was that if you can cut access to these added parts or replace it with Chess for a kind of reality of the reasons of gaming in the first place, then it's rather more blunt or brutal - and the truth is that your skill is not diluted through other players or a team online (other games can hide how shit you are and non-progressing because you're just happy to jump around and fire something. People are generally needed as constant fodder for others making them look good (even if they are) and once you realise yours place you might want to stop being easy prey.

So one / I / you can curve your intake (time spent) and then move on back to work easier (with less ties / less commitment / less carried away / less energy system consumption / less time-jumps) if you can find this low-end but still basically-the-same balance of games.
If one is using it as an outlet or small expression of nervousness, which I also see in myself in playing chess then asking why do I want to play gets the reasons, then you can catch yourself understanding why you suddenly wanted to play and choose more regularly after 1 game to resign / close the chess window and changing into some other task in real life.

Measurably every 10mins for example as 1 game of chess I have this choice again to choose more clearly presented to me and even forced to decide if I want to lose again another game!

The addiction to real life and wanting to improve that isn't easy I think, so that's also why I mentioned it to get people thinking about it (even if in life we have to self-create more than play someone else's game - to mod our own life so to speak).

Arguably there are people developing (or just playing) THOSE games MORE than real life :)

Time to make real life fun again or at least talk about it!

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About graphics card:

Ok so overall the person should have the will to increase their interest in solving their habit or diverting it back in to real life...

(and this whole topic might be easier to speak about than type, which is my clever answer to what do with people instead of gaming or even typing more than anything...)

but they simply find something they can replace which is not as time-consuming or even fun but gets the job done as a break, expression, rest of eyes / change of scenery.

My assumption with the graphics card part is that most people have actually added a card, and so they or someone around knows how to remove it.
Then the other assumption was that they would have the motherboard as the basic graphics if that is right (not always but most mboards yes). So yeah they had to add it usually and already KNOW how since they are a 'gamer'! :)

Standard motherboard is usually not enough power for games or more power is wanted so my other assumption (if you remember how happy you were with some 1 player games) is that reducing what is like all-you-can-eat consumption and mass in time then all is better and still player can be happy (it's like it's steroided now with how fast and how much and etc... but still it's all energy or too fast, too good, too frantic). To know where technology and speed went too fast or simply what our hearts were happy with on pure or basic simple level (sounds like a cop-out or weak sentiment) and remember that I think can honour those previous ways and we don't need constant upgrades to that (whatever others may try to sell or push us into).

This is my basic staple game and I know how that betters life from what it doesn't suck from me or allow me to get messed up about.

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About seeing one's self what is a good spending of time:

Like you said from you own experience; seeing where it's too much or too long and making it measurably less - I would add getting people to feel less helpless in life too - commanding their own ship somewhat instead of jumping into other games (like the army games are popular right, people jumping into army games and shooting each other because at least that feels constructive and skilful - naa).

And while my initial text is NOT an attempt to cover all cases or skill-sets, it is to give idea to take intention and for people to add to that themself (or add to themself more things to their own life... which is that ubuntu thing (we define each other!))

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_philosophy

and yes ask someone about it like me, you. someone who bothers to care to help with habits, the internet how etc.... or just interesting in freedom-loving things... so I think that is measurably good

(Again if you would like to talk about this to avoid losing coherence in text (which I felt once during this writing) and even consider make a mini-podcast about it in the long run or discussing what that might be, do let me know as a better way to talk a subjects deeper. Text is also too much though I do hope you appreciate this writing and not only as a throw-away thing (though yes eventually!).

Even partially / less technically people talking about their own experiences I think is good overall.

This is also my answer in the 'game of life' to create something that is a bit more real and so when one switches off their computer one feels truly they left something in life for others and not that empty guilty feeling from the gluttony that you may know, turning off the that 'playstation' and playing for hours the same game (even with others in the same room for too long) :/

:)

DM me if an audio version of this interests you, otherwise my thanks @barefootstache in general.