Is chess harmful for mental health.

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ShubhamSinha_GM
please help.
ShubhamSinha_GM

Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.

tygxc

#1
No, chess is not harmful for mental health. Research shows it is even beneficial.
Chess Can Cause Pain
"Chess is not for the faint of heart" - Steinitz
#3
Do not lose 3-4 games. When you lose 1 game, stop playing and analyse your lost game first so as to channel the negative emotions of the loss towards a positive goal, improving.

the_craven

yes. solved.

Duck

Chess is like medication, if taken in the right amounts it can be incredibly beneficial to your well-being, however to much of it can cause severe side effects such as the inability to sleep, wondering if you'll ever regain the rating you lost, or even sudden mood swings from losing a completely winning position. 

zenprankster

Chess can be harmful to mental health if you get too emotional about it. I have an occasional problem with that. In fact, for several months, I kept getting angry, throwing childish tantrums, and my game just got worse. I had to stay away from the game for a while and come back with a calm mind.

 

play4fun64

NO. Unless you are obsessed with chess like Fischer, Tal, Morphy,  If you are currently suffering from mental health, other factors caused it not chess.

KevinOSh

Chess is a very frustrating game. You are continually confronted with your mistakes and shortcomings and there is nobody to blame except yourself.

Many times I have asked myself why do I bother to play this game? But I always come back for more.

NiccolaTargaryen
ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:
please help.

although I prefer my nephews, nieces, uncles to see them playing chess seriously on their phones, than watching 🤫👉photographies, but I think there's no wrong with chess as a favorite pastime, to kill the time of boredom.

☝️🤨it only becomes dangerous, when the concepts or ideas of the chessgame, begun to change your attitude, your disposition (turns you into egocentric individual) and your social relations, when you start to create schemes, to take advantage of your fellowmen by deceit to acquire money or the desires of your heart through wickedness, illegal or unfair methods, because you simply applied the virtues of outwitting your chess opponent, then chess becomes a dangerous hobby for you.

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ShubhamSinha_GM

Thanks to all of you guys.

jthestockfish
ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:

Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.

its normal to be frustrated; you just have to have healthy ways to express the frustration and come back to whatever chess activity you want to do with the refreshed intent to improvement you already possess happy.png

DelightfulLiberty

I strongly suspect no. Even the opposite.

However, you'd be better served asking the question to mental health professionals not chess players.

Terminator-T800

Yep this game can send you around the twister. I am living proof

pcwildman

At least you would survive the twister. Not us mere mortals. happy

Chess would seem to bring out the entire range of emotions. How you handle it, as you handle other things in your life, can be good or bad. If anything, it's making us all Bi-Polar. (Or is it Bi-Polgar?) We go from the Heights of Ecstasy to the Trough of Despair.

Ziryab

No.

But an obsession with anything can be detrimental.

Also detrimental would be the failure to take an interest in something that motivated you to learn. Smart children who do not continue learning become stoopid adults. Chess motivates learning.

For those, however, who develop no interests outside of chess, the learning process is truncated. That was part of Fischer’s problem

x-2221569294

yes

pcwildman

#28 I can hear the song in my head and see the guy wiping out on the ski jump. happy

pcwildman

Think of the advancements Carl the Draper could have made in Meteorology. "I'm going to ride the tornado again, I'll be back."

Terminator-T800

There's nothing wrong with having a little drop of Bi-Polgar in this day & age, It will help you fit in & you wont feel like an oddball. Every sane person needs to start bashing their head against the wall cause otherwise the world could become a very lonely place soon.

blueemu

You don't need to be crazy to play chess, but it helps.