Also, apart from playing chess games, do a lot of puzzles if you're interested in it for the benefits to the mind. It works your pattern recognition so much. Maybe the part of chess that I get most benefits from in other fields.
Benefits of chess?
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Kaimaia2 wrote:
every one who plays is a winner
Nah, chess.com is the winner.
Well you have a really decent winning percentage, so I assume you're only going through a bad streak.
But well, going into the article you posted, losing is one of the things in chess that can reduce panic attacks and etc. As others already sair here, losing it's a lesson of humility and respect. To accept when things got out of your control.
Also, losing will make you want to win more. And in your pursuit to win, you'll have to develop repertoire (working your memory), tactics/strategies (awareness of cause and effect) and other things... In general, the benefits are rather intangible, so it's difficult to quantify how much good chess is doing to you.
I recommend you to read the book "How life imitates chess" from Kasparov if you want more insight from benefits of chess to life. He talks about losing and also puts a nice question: Am I good at chess because I was already smart and resourcefull or Am I resourcefull and smart because of chess?