Life is a waste of time.

chess for me is a big paert of life. It gives me strength to get by the hardships and sometimes misery of life. Daily life is hard so you need to have some fun too. in days that i have no time to play I feel empty

of course you have casted your vote for No. Pls also cast your vote.

well balanced ideas. Now i should think also about the other aspect that it can be a waste of time too.

Never!

OG

I'm afraid to say that the article #1 for "Yes", besides a lot of rhetorical abuse, has some points that are not addressed in the #1 article for "No". It pretends to be fair enough not denying many virtues of chess, changing possibly the playground where "No" has to counter-attack. And "No" doesn't challenge the main hole in the argumentation. As a hole in d4 that waits for a knight, or an open file that waits its rook, the core argument has not really been addressed, letting "Yes" win on some grounds. The core argument is: not only as job or hobby chess is valuable, it's valuable as passion too. It's worth playing it not for the sake of becoming a "movie star" as it claims. Passions are truly human, and a passion for chess, among the not denied training ability for mind and intelligence, is a more human passion than other possible "passions" ("How about surfing? Mountain climbing? Wining and dining? Traveling? Sex for that matter? Get a life.") listed there. Chess as a hobby taken seriusly could be not, itself, be anything else then a good thing.

Then there is the "sense of proportion". All things can be good or bad, it depends on quantity too. A bad addiction that chops off all the other aspects of being human is, of course, bad. But it could be 'cause of chess, sex, job, whatever. So, you could have a passion for mountain climbing, and it's good. For wining and dining, and it's good. For sex, and it could be good. For more than one of these, you are a man or woman with many passions, so you are richer. There is no ground to exclude chess from this list.

There is a fundamental difference between chess and monopoly (or other board games designed just for entartainment), and the serious chess amateur was considered (outside the "recreational balance for life"). Chess could be not only recreational. If you consider it only in that way, you leave points for the "Yes" argumentations. Instead, in my view, you have to consider "balance" in the view of the "sense of proportion", nothing more nothing less.

If wining and dining stops you from saving the world, would be bad in the same way.

nope.

of course chess is a waste of time!! that is why i spend half my life on a chess website.

I love the question, though. not pointless at all.

Agreed!

Not only does chess give you recreation, it gives you experience with planning, judgment, analysis, visualization and sportsmanship.  There will often be better uses of your time but chess is not a waste.

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 I agree with what you've put.

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Yes i dont care. We are free to waste or use our time , money or brain. If people say something let em say. Great philosophy.!  I am your follower.

what is time?

Depends on how you look at it.

I think that people who watch television are wasting their time, but I think a few people would disagree.

To Read or Not To Read

Depends on what you are watching SuiteLycee, a good fishing program is good, and some documentaries are interesting. But some people watch stupid stuff which does waste you're time.

Time is very important, so yes it does exist.

Well I just lost a 60M race by 9 100ths of a second so time exists.