lol no

It is true that when you play chess, you are meeting a chess player. Having said that, is it not possible to meet a chess player without playing chess?

Anyway...chess, as with any mental activity that requires an active thought process (reading, deep discussions about meeting chess players, even playing video games) has been been statistically correlated with delaying dementia from progressing - delaying, not preventing or reversing. Keeping Your mind active throughout life, especially in middle and old age has been statistically correlated with a lowered onset of dementia/Alzheimer's. More highly educated people tend to have lowered onset of dementia/Alzheimer's, most likely because they have read more when young and continue to do so throughout life. Unless, of course, you happen to be an accountant.

To further bloviate, increased mental activity seems to prevent or lessen brain plaque (this plaque is the substance that gums up the connections in our brains which causes dementia/Alzheimer's symptoms). Unless, of course, you happen to be an .....never mind.

U just need to be a genius xD

I would have to agree with you Jengaias. However, as chess players our choices of dialogue and words could be in the area of our intellegence level. :)

Does Chess Make you Smarter?

 

Yes, I think so. Chess is a challenge. Tackling challenge requires trying new things; some of them work, some of them don't. We select the strategies that work, disregard the ones that don't. In doing so, we get smarter & wiser.

Well, I recon you're smarter in chess, and he's smarter in law. You see chess was your challenge and you became smarter there by perfecting your craft. He did the same thing with the law. You both honed in your respective skills and that made your brains better suited for solving appropriate problems. Now, a law degree is also an enabling factor to solve some other, related problems - such as talking about hisory and politics and things like that. Chess is perhaps more narrowly-oriented since it's quite an unusual a field of study. However, chess players may be better in spacial-visualisation problems and things like that. It's true that because chess requires total & complete dedication that chess masters rarely know a thing or two about topics outside chess. Chess is a truly complex game and consumes the mind entirely. But, there are a few shining examples. For example, Emanuel Lasker was also a mathematician and, by some accounts, a rather brilliant one. However, his efforts were alsmost exclusively dedicated to chess and that's what he's known for.

Nice Spirit😄.

If you use chess correctly it can help your brain.

I believe chess in right amount makes people smarter. An overdose would makes one less smart.

Some people are obviously making wrong assumptions.

"smart" is such a clear word anyway. meaning intelligent? then i fear no. playing chess (properly) will help getting better at chess, and help develop concentration i guess. did fischer have a high IQ? i read he did. was he a genious at chess? guess so. was he also smart? hmmm... maybe not.

maybe being smart means the ability to put whatever (not too impressive, or a lot of) IQ you have to survive in life. bit like rambo or mr schwarzenegger in real life. so there playing chess would hopelessly fail you!

# not such a clear word  i mean. 

OMG, I am put in my place so strongly, it hurts! By the living proof that great chess indeed makes super smart. I beg for forgiveness for my mistakes!