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How does chess affect your mental health?
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Ubik42 wrote:
Fingerly wrote:
Mental exercises like chess seem positive to me. However, I think dealing with the mentally ill on a regular basis has a detrimental effect--and in these forums we have already established that chess players are at least weird, if not ill.
We may be drawn to this game by the beauty of chess logic and the thrill of victory while convincing ourselves that it improves our mental health, but could we also be driving each other crazy in the process, simply by dealing with each other's weird behavior?
I prefer the wierdness of this forum to the downright nastiness I see most elsewhere.
Exactly. I used to spend some time on Craig's List World Politics forum, and it is the most trolled viscious useless site. There are some good posters there and good information and posts, but unfortunately the amount of negativity and crap you have to wade through is horrible and the only way you can get by there is to become more like that which you despise. Not worth it. The very best posters have left that forum or visit only rarely.
Craig's list forum moderation is utterly broken. They have a flagging system that doesn't make any sense and everything about the way the site and moderators work is inconsistent and sometimes arbitary and capricious. But I digress. Which is a first for me, as I'm sure you are well aware.
Wow...I didn't even know Craig's List had forums.
For some reason or other, I'm beginning to hate them too...
May 15, 2013
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#46
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Chess does not have any signification measurable effect on your mental health. It does not directly improve your memory. It does, however, increase you chess specific memory, since you in the "back of your mind" remember every game you have ever played.
There is no correlation between chess and any mental diseases.
jac1yn wrote:
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The one time this made Andy happy.
I was on yahoo answers and someone said it could cure Alzheimer's. so I don't think chess is bad for you
This is a nice forum and well policed. Just enough humour. And a nice place to come when recovering from norovirus and no-one else wants you around :-)
Chess can make me a bit cranky for five minutes after I lose stupidly, but on the whole it seems beneficial as long as I don't take it too seriously. I don't know how top players cope with the pressure though; they must be mentally very tough.
Bridge is a nicer game really; more sociable and you can always blame the cards when you lose.
May 15, 2013
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pdve wrote:
i think it's common sense that chess can only make you nuts.
Chess made you nuts, therefore I can't trust that statement.
I'm fine thank you
Маленькая девочка может быть прав. Нет оскорблений пожалуйста.
I eat and sleep less. Managing my current ~60 online games is like stocktrading sometimes ... number goes up, number goes down.
must be careful not to play too much. Balance in life is key for Mind/Body health. few take care of own bodies, result sometime mental illness.
May 15, 2013
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#59
NimzoRoy wrote:
How does chess affect your mental health?
BEFORE AFTER
Fischer's sanity %:
10% of insanity caused by torture in the Pasadena gaolhouse, 20% by going crazy over new shoes, 30% by having a sponsorship deal with Gilette be kyboshed by New York merchant bankers with names like Goldstein and Goldberg, and the last 40% of insanity is due to miscellaneous factors including astrological influence, numerological life path numbers, trying to learn Russian to read their chess books, and innate crackpot factors that increased with age, fame and egotism.
Mental exercises like chess seem positive to me. However, I think dealing with the mentally ill on a regular basis has a detrimental effect--and in these forums we have already established that chess players are at least weird, if not ill.
We may be drawn to this game by the beauty of chess logic and the thrill of victory while convincing ourselves that it improves our mental health, but could we also be driving each other crazy in the process, simply by dealing with each other's weird behavior?
I prefer the wierdness of this forum to the downright nastiness I see most elsewhere.