Did chess ruin or improved life or us?

    Did we all turn into chess addicts?

   

Chess and Chess.com has done good for me, and some bad. The bad things are when my grades became slipping. The good thing after the addiction, I am alot mature. Chess now has improved life for me.

chess is and always has been a force for good in my life

as for addiction to chess. I think it is only an addiction when it starts to affect your participation in other more important parts of your life. 

That's a good question and to me I think it's an improvement, though it kills a lot of precious time. But you are really starting a lot of topics now...

Who are you calling an Elf?

 Thanks for replying, I have nothing to do in my dad's office execpt Chess.com...

chess is good, but once u start playin u dont want 2 stop, its kinda addictive

I agree

Something I once read in Chess Life: "Ignore the fact that you are devoting your life to the art of checkmating a plastic king."

LOL....El_Piton.....I would love to read that book!

Some quotes that fit~

By some ardent enthusiasts, chess has been elevated into a science or an art. It is neither; but its principal characteristic seems to be what human nature most delights in - a fight -Emanuel Lasker

Chess is a beautiful mistress to whom we keep coming back, no matter how many times she rejects us." – Bent Larsen

"Chess is not a game but a disease." – Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman

"Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency." – Raymond Chandler

Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time. - George Bernard Shaw.

Personaly I think its a hobby; and I don't build models, quilt, or bird watch.

El_Piton wrote:

the art of checkmating a plastic king."

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i wooden be so sure of that ( sorry El_Piton, i thought this was posted by El_F )
when is Ray going to get his answer ?
do you drive a Renault ?

chessfanforlife wrote: LOL....El_Piton.....I would love to read that book!

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That came from an article in Chess Life titled "On Good and Evil Chess". It was supposed to be a parody of something by Nietzsche and contained such things as "Develop your Bishops. At the same time. Every day." and "Try to check your opponent. If he sees through this, kick him." It was from back in the 1980s, I think.

it's been good, it is a good academic game and i like to academically broaden my life.

Thanks...Trying to look for it on Ebay,amazon,and a chess store thats a few steps away from my house.

Good luck, but I don't think you're going to find it. It's a magazine article from the 1980s.

One of my favorite quotes----> The champion referred to chess as a playground on which the intellect may acquire useful habits of lasting benefit.

                                         Emanuel Lasker

One more here------> Chess is the instructor of youth, the comfort of middle age, and the delight of old age.  But let chess occupy its proper place, for I have known fortunes lost by too much time devoted to it. Chess affords amusement, pleasure, solace and instruction; but it is not the business of life

                              Alderman Thomas Avery

All i know is its fun and makes me happy. As long as I'm happy what else matters?

I dont get depthshaman but i agree with him

I won a tourny today!