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Alternative mental training to chess?
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Great, big help, thanks
Any other strategic board game will do.
Thanks but I don't have a billiards table or other players on demand necessarily
maybe something like seppaku (where you have to make each like 1-9), or any puzzle game really. if you think chess is slow or boring why dont you just play a faster version of it, like blitz or rapid?
See the above part about being difficult. I'm just not able to see the strategy even at a slow paced game, much less at a faster one
Paratrooper508 wrote:
See the above part about being difficult. I'm just not able to see the strategy even at a slow paced game, much less at a faster one
chess isn't supposed to be easy, infact any game thats supposed to help your brain (usually by making you think), isn't going to be easy. you're kinda sounding like a one of those "get rich quick" sheep, except in this case its "get smart quick"
I'm a sheep for being curious about an alternative that I find more fun and am willing to butt my head against a wall for? Well I'm sorry, I hope I'm not in the way of your high horse.
Paratrooper508 wrote:
Chess is supposed to measure intelligence and strategy, but I find chess boring, slow, and very difficult. Is there another game or method that improves whatever brain area it is associated with chess but is a little more fun?
You could try tic-tac-toe... It will help boost your morale, because you'll rarely lose. 
Try scrabble and crosswords puzzle.
Dec 23, 2013
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Since you don't have other players on demand maybe try books called Chess Mazes 1 & 2. It will help your visualization skills (as said by NM Dan Heisman) That way it still relates to chess and the moves the pieces can make. They are on sale now at chesscafe.com
http://shop.chesscafe.com/Chess-Mazes-REI198.htm?categoryId=-1
Dec 23, 2013
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Backgammon, involve in math like odds and possiblities. Any good card games which require memory like Gin Rummy etc also Dominoes but better for 4 players.
Dec 23, 2013
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playing jazz on a musical instrument, preferably one that allows solos and accompaniement, like guitar, piano, vibraphone. Closest thing to chess.
For whatever it is worth the antiaging study done that found chess effective in staving off dementia also found playing bridge effective. Of course the study can't answer the question of whether the activity itself has anything to do with the result other than that the folks least susceptible to dementia are drawn to chess and bridge.
Chess is supposed to measure intelligence and strategy, but I find chess boring, slow, and very difficult. Is there another game or method that improves whatever brain area it is associated with chess but is a little more fun?