6 masters who proved that chess kills your brain and your life - YOU ARE WARNED

Then there's Anand, a middle aged man who is unable to let go of his golden 20s - 30s. Like a stubborn creature, he viciously fights and protects his right to compete for the top slot denying Caruana and Nakamura to get their deserved shot at the world championship title. At just 40 years of age, his balding head is a clear indicative of his weathered chess essence.

"deserved shot" is when you win the candidates tournament

anand actually lost two games against caruana and nakamura in last candidates, so it's not him who denied them the 1st place (actually it's the other way round i.e. Anand would have been 1st if he had drawn these two games).

Anyway, we're not discussing about who's more deserving for the title here.

OK, up until now, I was giving you the benefit of the doubt. However, now it's clear that you're trolling.

Thats what he does.

Please stop derailing topics by announcing people as trolls, you are blocked for now. Next time, try to behave.

Be a trooper,I say!

It is true that Pillsbury died of syphillus which he got at a chess tournament. You cannot get syphillus just from touching a chess piece. He loved chess so much that he took a King from an unused set, went into the men's room and inserted it into himself. That's how he got syphillus.   

CORRELATION IS NOT CAUSATION

Those are only 6 chessplayers. Think about all the other thousands that had a good career and life? All sports have players that have been killed by things like this. Your point is clearly not backed with enough evidence. Think about it are any people in the top 10 today like that?

Nimzo Anand still has plenty of chess left in him. Also just because he denied Nakamura and Caruana does'nt mean he is bad. almost all the people in the top 100 have denied another player a win in a tournament but did not get a win themselves.

I'm closing my account 😶

Bye.

If you look closely, you'll find hundreds of cases where a chess master's life has ended in tradegy, I've only considered the 6 most famous players who were all world champions.

The top 10 of today are all very young, still in their 20s. It takes time for chess to deteriorate a person's mental health by modifying the neural paths. Magnus has already started to show some signs, look at his interviews, he struggles to make complete sentences when he speaks. It's just a matter of time before he turns into the next Fisher. Kramnik is a chain smoker, he was also involved in the toiletgate scandal where it was alleged that he used a computer in the toilet. 

Quite true. But then anecdotes aren't even good evidence of correlation.

Me. I entertained thoughts of effortlessly winning championships, rising like a rocket to the top of chess. Now i just drink and troll forums while trying to make 1500.

entertaining topic. are we sure it was chess that "ruined" these masters?? or maybe they weren't ruined, just human. or maybe the same percentage of "ruined" lives exists among chessplayers as everyone else, and they were among them. or maybe brilliant people struggle more than more mundane people mundane reality

I agree, plus the descriptions are caricatures.

Your statement very dangerous! I don't believe chess as a "killer" because we will get what we are focus.

If you focus chess as "passive income" as a membership site, you will get it!

If you focus chess as "sharing knowledge" as a chess puzzle site, you will get it!

And if you focus chess as a killer, don't blame your brain or other people when it is happen!

Trust me !!!