Apparently you have less chance of getting senile demetia or crashing you car due to higher focus also a great social tool and a fun thing to do.
Why should I play chess?
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Mar 3, 2008
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A quote from one of BillWall's earlier posts:
"Chess helps you to concentrate better. You can focus on a problem better and look for mutliple solutions or the best solution. Chess makes you a better observer. Chess helps you visualize problems better. Chess teaches patience. The better players do not make the first move they think of. They have patience to find even a better move or make sure the first move thought abot is the best move. Chess players are able the think ahead better. In chess, you think first, then act after careful thought. Chess teaches you to look at alternatives and consider the pros and cons of the choices (candiate moves in chess) being though about. Chess is good in pattern recognition and it does help train the memory to work better. You don't need the best memory to play chess, you need solid logic and how to analyze correctly. There are social benefits to chess. There are organized clubs and tournaments. Ideally, kids are taught about sportsmanship and how to win or lose graciously. For kids with talent, there is increased motivation to get better and study more, with books or a coach or even with computer databases nowadays."
You find that you have become too popular.
If you don't enjoy chess, there is no benefit in playing. Chess, ultimately, is a hobby. Everybody needs hobbies, right?
Then again, if you hate chess.. playing could build character. My father told me doing things you hate builds character.
That usually meant the garage needed cleaning.
"All chessplayers should have a hobby." - Savielly Tartakower (1887-1956)
silentfilmstar13 wrote: If you don't enjoy chess, there is no benefit in playing. Chess, ultimately, is a hobby. Everybody needs hobbies, right?
This means I am obsessive about my hobby!
improve your brain
find more friend
happy yourself(win),your friend happy(whan u lose)
become a member in www.chess.com....
you know the world...
Mar 4, 2008
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this was takn from
http://pinoychess.informe.com/
Posted: Pinoychess @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 1:25 pm 
Importance of Chess
by Bobby Ang
MANY years ago this writer was invited to apply for a job as an auditor with the National Development Company (NDC). At that time this was considered an honor – the NDC, after all, was the quasi-governmental agency which controlled the shares of some of the biggest corporations in the country, the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines (CDCP) for example, and actively recruited the brightest and most promising young CPAs in the country (or so I was told) to monitor the operations of its subsidiary companies.
I was excited with the prospect of testing myself against the best from all over the Philippines and duly showed up during the examination days. The tests were not particularly difficult, but the last exam presented a challenge.
We were given a sheet of paper which narrated how man landed on an uncharted planet in the Milky Way Galaxy and discovered a race of semi-humans who spoke a similar language to English, except that they had a different alphabet. For example, instead of a they used t, instead of b the equivalent was x, and so on and so forth. We were then instructed to study the out-worldly alphabet for five minutes, after which it was taken away and replaced by a one-page essay in the foreign language. The task given to each one of us was to translate the essay into English within an hour.
Many of the examinees were not able to solve this puzzle correctly, but I succeeded in the task in around half an hour. Chess has taught me pattern recognition, concentration and problem-solving. First, I concentrated on one letter words – clearly this was either an "I" or an "a". Then I looked at the three letter words, either an "and" or a "the". This immediately solved which letter was an "a" and which was an "I". Now having established a starting point and applying the principle of elimination the rest was accomplished easily.
Chess is a great educational tool, which explains why it is part of the school curriculum of Singapore, Brazil, and several other countries.
When you go to the ricefields, you will see the young men of the barrio working industriously every day. Later in the afternoon, having finished their chores, they would maybe play some basketball. At night, after dinner, they would gather around the neighborhood sari-sari store and watch TV. Usually there would be a basketball game on screen.
What chance do these people have to improve their lot? They do manual labor during the daytime, play, eat and watch basketball. Let’s say they then go to the big cities and for college – can they succeed?
Chess is their salvation, for it teaches them something that basketball or planting rice does not: (1) you and only you are responsible for your moves; (2) you make a mistake you pay for it; (3) before solving a problem, make sure you understand what the problem is; (4) strike from your strength, not from weakness; (5) plan your moves, do not just jump in; (6) study how other people have encountered similar problems and how they went about solving it, but also keep your creative senses sharp – you might come up with an even better way of proceeding; and (7) map out a strategy to fulfill your plan, and follow it through.
If you think these lessons are obvious, that is because you have gone through college – for those in the provinces who have never gone to school, it is not so simple.
I also used to say that chess teaches you imagination, but one day someone asked me to give an example, and none came to mind. The other night, while reading Garry Kasparov's book on how life imitates chess, the example finally came. I'd like to share it with you.
Shirov, Alexei (2700) – Kasparov, Garry (2820) [B90]
Tilburg Fontys Tilburg (5), 02.10.1997
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2
The move 9.g4? used to be played a lot, but nowadays it is known that after 9...d5! 10.g5 (10.exd5? Nxd5 11.Nxd5 Bh4+ 12.Bf2 Bxf2+ 13.Kxf2 Bxd5 material is equal but White is obviously in trouble) 10...d4 11.gxf6 Bxf6 Black has a big advantage.
9...Nbd7
9...d5 does not work so well now because the intervening check on h4 is easily blocked by g2-g3]
10.g4 h6 11.0–0–0 b5 12.h4 Nb6 13.Kb1 b4 14.Bxb6 Qxb6 15.Nd5 Bxd5 16.exd5 a5 17.Qd3
Making way for the knight hop to d2 and either c4 or e4.
17...0–0! 18.Nd2
The immediate threat is g4-g5 followed by Ne4.
18...a4 19.Ne4
[19.g5 Nh5 20.gxh6 g6]
19...Rfc8! 20.Nxf6+ Bxf6
Kasparov's counterthreat is ...e5-e4, opening up the long diagonal for a bishop sacrifice on b2.
21.Qe4
[21.g5? e4! 22.Qxe4 b3 23.cxb3 axb3 24.a3 Bxb2! wins]
21...Qc5 22.Bd3 Kf8! 23.g5 hxg5 24.hxg5 Bxg5 25.Qf5 Bh6 26.Rh4
This move prepares Rc4, attacking the Black Queen. Here is Kasparov's narration of his thought processes:
"I obviously had to get my queen out of the way, and I sat looking at the few possible retreats. All the options would leave the position dynamically balanced, but I was disappointed there wasn't the opportunity for more.
"Before I resigned myself to the seemingly inevitable queen move, I took a deep breath and surveyed the rest of the board. As with so many fantasy moves, this one started with a mental 'wouldn't it be nice if ...' If you daydream a little about what you'd like to see happen, sometimes you find that it is really possible. What if I ignored his threat to my queen? He would have extra material, but my pieces, while technically outgunned by his queen, would be active and he'd be under pressure."
26...Ke7!!
Kasparov: "Too often we quickly discard apparently outlandish ideas and solutions, especially in areas where the known methods have been in place for a long time. The failure to think creatively is as much self-imposed as it is imposed by the parameters of our jobs and of our lives. 'What if?' often leads to 'Why not?' and at that point we must summon our courage and find out."
27.Rc4 Qxc4 28.Bxc4 Rxc4 29.Qd3 Rac8 30.Re1 Bf4 31.Re4?
After 31.b3 it is still a game.
31...Rxe4 32.fxe4 g5! 33.a3 bxa3 34.Qa6 Rd8 35.Qb6 g4 36.c4 g3 37.c5 g2 38.cxd6+ Rxd6 39.Qc7+ Kf6! 40.Qxd6+ Kg7 0–1
I have been teaching in the College of Commerce of the University of Santo Tomas since 1981, and my message to the students has never changed. We have been in school since the age of five and up to now all you know is life in elementary, high school and college. When the time comes for you to graduate with your degree in accounting, there is an important thing that you must remember – SCHOOL IS OVER.
In school you can fail an exam, or even an entire course. No big deal – take it again during summer. There are a lot of pretty cross-enrollees anyway. In school you can get away with not doing your homework – just make sure to do “sipsip” with your teacher.
In life, a lot of times you get only one chance. You must train yourself to recognize opportunities and to go for it when it comes. For this, you must have complete technical and professional training. It is for those reasons why you went to college, and why you have been working so hard in office. But just as important, you must have the skills of concentration, problem-solving, responsibility, creativity, and imagination. And for that you need chess.
Answer 1) Knowing how to play chess well will get you more secure boyfriends. Most men hate to lose anything to their girls or wives so if you find one that doesn't mind losing, then you know he is secure in who he is. Capiche?
Answer 2) The loser you are dating justs wants to beat you up in a game you don't understand to show dominance over you. So learn chess and submit.
Answer 3) It is very romantic to sit around with your partner and cuddle up and play games together while you talk.
Answer 4) It makes you smarter (Well duhhhhhhhhhh)
because it helps you thinka bout stuff more carefully in everyday things!
Because checkers is too easy
You are less prone to alzheimer's. Chess is a very logical game that focus the brain on solving solutions. Just like math. Except chess is alot more fun.
Well, its better than watching TV for a start, but not as fun as drinking however. Simply enjoy the game and well, if im honest with you, its better to play over the board with people. I met loads of cool people from Europe by playing OTB chess. You dont have to improve as much as others or at all, but its always cool to progress at any hobby, game or sport.
thinking in advance in general
I play Chess because it is a graceful, logical battle.
Mar 5, 2008
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I think you shouldn't worry about the benefits. If you enjoy chess, just keep playing it.
chess is a game...
i think, to a degree, that is lost on people. it's at the same time a very simple game, and a very complex game. but it should be fun.
it's a mental game. so winning/loosing and improving/learning give you the satisfaction of acomplishing something with your mind.
i don't personally buy into the "chess can help you with life" stuff... it seems like hype. but there's a reason chess has been around, nearly unchanged since the nearly the dawn of civilized culture. it's a good game.
if you're not having fun... you probably shouldn't play. but you have to make an effort to understand the game, to be any good at it.
anything that engages or tests your mind will improve it's functions. the elements of compettion inherent in any game also apply. getting more familiar with chess, and understanding the concepts of tactics, strategy, patterns, "thinking ahead 3 moves" etc... lends itself to giving you insight into other aspects of problem solving. which can be applied anywhere.
What are the benefits of playing chess? srsly? I'm curious.