Is chess for those who are stuck in life and who have failed in developing proper social skills? Jung said chess attracts depressed people who have become too introversive.
yes it is!
I agree
if by failure you mean a failure to care about what everyone else thinks and failure to abandon something they enjoy because of outside pressures of what is "cool", then yes.
I moved to a new city two years ago. I knew nobody there. Joined the chess club, 100+ members of all walks of life, now I have some good friends and I regularly see people who greet me on the streets. To me, chess is an essential social skill.
That's a good story Scarblac, but that probably doesn't have to everyone. I think the OP has a point.
This is nice, and I agree. The problem today is the net has to be bad for real life chess clubs. Its so much easier to just stay at home and play that a lot of people have quit going to clubs and many never even start.
No he doesn't, he's an idiot.
But just play along with the nice man and see what happens
I just thought it would be funny to have a guy making all of those stereotypes thinks everybody agrees with him. However, I really don't think a chess club on average is going to help as much as it did to Scarblac.
I'm waiting for the corollary "Sports is for failures" post.
Trying at anything in general is for failures.
I concur. This logic proves that I'm a stunning success in life!
Yay me!
YOU GOT IT!
no it get you to look,, at things which most people would pass by,
god or the goddess works in numbers , that why chess and the arts go hand in hand,
every artist is not a chess player, but every chess player is a artist...
m de champ.
I don't see that as true for most people. Perhaps the best 10% of players would prove this true, simply because of the amount of time it takes in their lives. For most players, even serious players, it is still a game and takes backseat to life. In fact, I quit the chess club in high school because I felt I was passing up other things to sit on front of a chessboard.
Chess is for gentlemen of society. If that being a gentleman of society is
a failure of equal fraternity, I admit that failure openly;
This is a man's world; eat or be eaten; eye of the tiger.
"It's the eye of the tiger, it's the thrill of the fight..."
Jung was full of shit.
Jung was a psychiatrist right? 'Nuff said.
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