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* Chess is fun!
* Chess enables you to meet many interesting people.
* Chess helps performing better in school.
* Chess develops your memory.
* Chess improves concentration.
* Chess develops logical thinking.
* Chess develops self-confidence.
* Chess teaches independence and personal responsibility.
* Chess develops imagination and creativity.
* Chess teaches you to plan ahead and foresee the consequences of your actions.
* Chess inspires self-motivation.
* Chess develops the scientific way of thinking.
* Chess teaches research skills.
Can you think of more benefits?
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Chess makes me cool 🙂
I have described chess to someone as “jogging for the brain”!
It gives many kids something to do instead of getting in trouble.
beats the hell out of a video game any day!
Chess develops self-confidence
Not if you loose all the time 🙂
Chess is relatively inexpensive, doesn’t require a field, rink, or diamond on which to play, and you can play it rain or shine.
chess is inexpensive? you are joking…sorry this isn’t true
for me chess is timeless
It teaches balance. For example, I used to attack in chess any opportunity I had. Well, this often opened me up to counterattacks that lost me games. So, it teaches one to balance themselves.
Also, patience!
Cheating. Also teaches you to be a creative cheat.
starkl: All one needs to play a game is another person and an inexpensive plastic set. I guess I was thinking of children, primarily, when I posted. One can spend a lot of money on the game if one so chooses, but it’s not necessary to do so to enjoy it.
Herr Tilling,
No serious chess player is a cheat – only the ones who are afraid to address their own shortcomings.
Mr Celticdeath,
No serious chess player is a cheat
You know, you really ought to give William Hartson’s How to Cheat at Chess, especially chapter 7, a read. He will tell you of a number of very serious players who used their creative ability to find all sorts of clever ways of cheating. Funniest of all is the brilliance displayed by one of your fellow country men on p.44 ff.
…– only the ones who are afraid to address their own shortcomings.
Amazing! How did you know? “Terrified of facing my shortcomings” is more like it though. And so the thought of e.g. managing to smuggle some laxative into your opponents tea while playing a long-time control game is not only a great relief, but makes for hours of tournament fun.
Here are some ideas for you to get going on:
*Shamelessly fart. Loudly. Laugh about it. Talk about the smell with the opponent.
*Twitch
*Complain about ‘dust’ on the board while your opponent is thinking
*Snigger when he makes a move. Look stunned and shake head so as to give the impression the move is an obvious blunder
*STARE at the opponent, don’t blink – especially when your opponent is thinking, etc.
Hope that helps
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Chess learns you to handle disappointments.
Chess learns you to stand worse and fight back.
Chess learns you to be humble because prof. Elo never lies. . .
I agree with CelticDeath
I would gain no satisfaction in the slightest if I were to win a Chess game by cheating.
I applaud those players who win on the board, not those who would consider the foulness of”How t Chedat”.
Chess lets me meet beautiful women like Zsuzsa.
Chess has the benefit of harbouring few attractive women. That’s a benefit for the sex obsessed male, who needs to put his mind on something else.
My (attractive) girlfriend forced me to add the following comment: chess also does not harbour many attractive men. In that case chess has the benefit of harbouring few attractive people.
Herr Tilling,
I wouldn’t necessarily classify your examples as cheating, per se. I, personally, wouldn’t do them, but those are actually psychological tactics used by some people in an effort to unnerve their opponents. Sort of like what some boxers do in pre-match interviews where they lambaste their opponents, or even with some pre-match physical conflicts, in an effort to intimidate them and “win the mental game.” I don’t see that as cheating, but I hold myself to higher standards than to attempt that. I like even fights and if my opp wants to play dirty, it just makes me play that much more seriously.
maybe she should stop playing you so much then peter. but seriously, where is her pic? we’ll judge.
I don’t see that as cheating, but I hold myself to higher standards than to attempt that. I like even fights and if my opp wants to play dirty, it just makes me play that much more seriously.
Yea yea … Although if you have to sit on the loo for most of the game because of ‘spiked tea’, your serious play might not be good enough!
😉