Is chess harmful for mental health.
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Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.
#1
No, chess is not harmful for mental health. Research shows it is even beneficial.
Chess Can Cause Pain
"Chess is not for the faint of heart" - Steinitz
#3
Do not lose 3-4 games. When you lose 1 game, stop playing and analyse your lost game first so as to channel the negative emotions of the loss towards a positive goal, improving.
May 28, 2022
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Chess is like medication, if taken in the right amounts it can be incredibly beneficial to your well-being, however to much of it can cause severe side effects such as the inability to sleep, wondering if you'll ever regain the rating you lost, or even sudden mood swings from losing a completely winning position.
May 28, 2022
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Chess can be harmful to mental health if you get too emotional about it. I have an occasional problem with that. In fact, for several months, I kept getting angry, throwing childish tantrums, and my game just got worse. I had to stay away from the game for a while and come back with a calm mind.
NO. Unless you are obsessed with chess like Fischer, Tal, Morphy, If you are currently suffering from mental health, other factors caused it not chess.
May 29, 2022
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#8
Chess is a very frustrating game. You are continually confronted with your mistakes and shortcomings and there is nobody to blame except yourself.
Many times I have asked myself why do I bother to play this game? But I always come back for more.
May 29, 2022
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ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:
please help.
although I prefer my nephews, nieces, uncles to see them playing chess seriously on their phones, than watching 🤫👉photographies, but I think there's no wrong with chess as a favorite pastime, to kill the time of boredom.
☝️🤨it only becomes dangerous, when the concepts or ideas of the chessgame, begun to change your attitude, your disposition (turns you into egocentric individual) and your social relations, when you start to create schemes, to take advantage of your fellowmen by deceit to acquire money or the desires of your heart through wickedness, illegal or unfair methods, because you simply applied the virtues of outwitting your chess opponent, then chess becomes a dangerous hobby for you.
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Thanks to all of you guys.
ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:
Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.
its normal to be frustrated; you just have to have healthy ways to express the frustration and come back to whatever chess activity you want to do with the refreshed intent to improvement you already possess 
ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:
Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.
That is a part of growing up. That is what every game in life is like.
TheNameofNames wrote:
It just has a slight stigma surrounding it.
That is because we are talking about extremes. Champions and grandmasters are already extremes.
The Marathon.
Every year, some one dies running the Marathon, just like the first guy who ran the Marathon, back in ancient Greece.
I don't hear about a stigma around Marathon runners.
Marathon. You are imitating the first guy that died running the Marathon. What a sport!
TheNameofNames wrote:
It just has a slight stigma surrounding it.
I have to put this one away.
How many famous singers and actors died of drugs?
Answer: More than you can count.
The key word is "famous". Famous is an extreme already. Fame is like a race car driver. "Live fast, die young."
epicdraw wrote:
Yes that is why they go crazy.
Anything can drive you crazy.
I strongly suspect no. Even the opposite.
However, you'd be better served asking the question to mental health professionals not chess players.
KevinOSh wrote:
Chess is a very frustrating game. You are continually confronted with your mistakes and shortcomings and there is nobody to blame except yourself.
Many times I have asked myself why do I bother to play this game? But I always come back for more.
Quit playing games . . . with my heart. - Backstreet Boys.
TheNameofNames wrote:
Einstein had a quote . . .
I'm tired of Einstein said this, and that , and the other.
First, half the quotes attributed to him are not his.
Second. Einstein is not the "smartest" guy in the world. Chess players are. Chess is an adaptive game, moves and counters, like martial arts, because chess is a martial art (a war art).
If I were to listen to anybody, it would be martial artists, not physicists, about life.
NiccolaTargaryen wrote:
ShubhamSinha_GM wrote:
please help.
although I prefer my nephews, nieces, uncles to see them playing chess seriously on their phones, than watching 🤫👉photographies, but I think there's no wrong with chess as a favorite pastime, to kill the time of boredom.
☝️🤨it only becomes dangerous, when the concepts or ideas of the chessgame, begun to change your attitude, your disposition (turns you into egocentric individual) and your social relations, when you start to create schemes, to take advantage of your fellowmen by deceit to acquire money or the desires of your heart through wickedness, illegal or unfair methods, because you simply applied the virtues of outwitting your chess opponent, then chess becomes a dangerous hobby for you.
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3 Things.
1. Chess is a war game. "All wars are based on deception." - The Art of War, Sun Tzu. I have to give you this one.
Compare chess to cards.
2. Chess is not played for money. Chess is played for honor.
Compare chess to gambling.
3. Chess is fair. Unlike casino games like Blackjack which are unfair. The odds are stacked against you.
I can use the Yin-Yang argument. The other side of deception is perception. The winner is the one who can deceive or perceive better.
Chess is the most honorable game there is.