Actually, it is not wrong to say that "Chess is a waste of time".
It is wrong.
Why do people play chess for so long? Since its creation. Thousands of years ago, since we don't know when exactly.
Thousands of years.
Consider this.
Practicing sword fighting was not a waste of time.
Since . . . I don't know since when. Oh yeah.
Between the time when the Oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed off . . . And humans stole the Secrets of Steel of Crom . . .
After the invention of guns, practicing sword fighting became a waste of time. There are very few "kenjitsu-ka" in modern times.
Why do I have a chess set (20 actually) in my house? And you have a chess set in your house? But nobody has swords in their house? Kitchen knives don't count. Why is that?
Back in the Romeo and Juliet days, everybody was armed, walking around with swords.
Washing clothes with your hands now is a waste of time after the invention of the washing machine.
Walking is a waste of time after the invention of the automobile. We don't walk anymore. It takes forever to walk to work and back. Nobody does it.
But we still play chess, for thousands and thousands of years.
There is something to this game. Something truly immortal.
I think I should agree chess is a waste of time. We all see that in Magnus Carlsen view. He wanted to change the chess rules so badly. The owner of the game from inventing classical chess to Bullet chess. It literally not even smart at all and no intelligence. It just the reflexes. I gain 0 iq from it and it just about 64 squares and all of the squares was played
Yes chess is like Jiu Jitsu