Chess is a Medicine for Anti Aging
By Leonxto Garcia for FIDE Chess in Schools Commission
This important material is contributed by Mr.Leonxto Garcia, famous chess journalist. Material describes the researches of neurology, proving how chess is used for antiaging. In 21st Century, human life will be longer. This will create a lot of health expenses on the budget of governments, dealing with aging problem. Old people will need cure.
These researches show how chess can be useful to deal with those problems. People, who know how to play chess, will use their brain more efficiently, and they will be able to take care of themselves.
Here are the researches, our thanks go to Mr.Garcia…
(pdf) Relation of Cognitive activity to risk of developing Alzheimer (Wilson’s neurology)
American Academy of Neurology, 28 May 2008. R.S.Wilson (PhD); P.A.Scherr (PhD, ScD), J.A.Schnedier (MD), Y.Tang (PhD), P.A.Bennett (MD)
(pdf) Mind Games May Trump Alzheimer’s Study Cites Effects of Chess, Bridge
The Washington Post, Shankar Vedentam, 19 June 2003
(pdf) Knight’s move thinking? Mild Cognitive impairment in a chess player (Neurocase)
H.A.Archer, J.M.Schott, J.Barnes, N.C.Fox, J.L.Holton, T.Revesz, L.Cipoletti, M.N.Rosser 26 Fabruary 2008
(pdf) Echec à Alzheimer (French!)
Excellent stuff.
Working the chess problems on this site every day may be torture, but it is also great fun, and helps to keep my mind active. I stayed away from chess for many years, but came back to it in order to stay alive.
Torture is FUN? I’ll try it on somebody else!
I like the before and after picture.
Bald old man on left is person before chess, beautiful woman on right, who interestingly looks like Susan Polgar, is man after learning chess.
Everyone should learn chess then they can look beautiful too!
I believe this, Gary Kasparov looks young, Susan Polgar looks young and very beautiful.. but what about Bobby fisher?
What happened to Bobby?
Wow, never thought of chess in such a way! 🙂