Chess increases your intelligence

People with lots of experience playing chess have highly developed thinking abilities in two areas in addition to memory skills : Fluid intelligence. This is the ability to consider new kinds of problems and use reasoning to solve them. Chess has also been shown to raise student's overall IQ scores. A Venezuelan study involving 4,000 second grade students found a significant increase in their IQ scores after only 4.5 months of systematically studying chess. The reality of chess is different – it actually is an incredibly beneficial pastime, because playing chess results in better brain function, improved memory and cognitive abilities, strategic thinking and attention improvement. ... Scientists also claim that playing chess can improve mental age by up to 14 years.