He’s saying that he has to have a second hobby because if he only played chess all the time then it would bore him and he’d lose interest.
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I... have two vocations: chess and engineering. If I played chess only, I believe that my success would not have been significantly greater. I can play chess well only when I have fully convalesced from chess and when the 'hunger for chess' once more awakens within me.
Mikhail Botvinnik