Is Chess Really Good for Your Brain?
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Now there's a lady who could've understood Nizman. 
Apr 9, 2013
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#205
DrFrank124c wrote:
AlCzervik wrote:
lol
Me, too (loling!). One of my Very favorite scenes in Airplane!
Just Think of the Brilliance involved in Casting them: Billingsley, Graves, Stack, Nielsen, and Bridges, and then directing everyone but Bridges to play it Absolutely "Straight" .... wow.... (we are not worthy ...we are not worthy...!)
I have not done any research on the topic but I do not see why it would be bad.
It helps you develop your creativity, especially if you're constantly invinting new openings or changing the rules so that people are forced to resign.
macer75 wrote:
It helps you develop your creativity, especially if you're constantly invinting new openings or changing the rules so that people are forced to resign.
coincidentally, guess the two most infamous threads I've been on today
Apr 9, 2013
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leonidbasin wrote:
Thanks for posting articles written by "labcoats with their jive talk."
As a shrink myself, I try to keep up with the latest neurological research, with all the speculations thereby generated. My caution: Learning "Research Methodology" in grad school essentially taught me to be Really skeptical about All these sorts of conclusions. In the brief research summaries above, I couldn't find any "results" that could Not have been explained by the "Hawthorne Effect."
Could be I'm just old and crotchety. Don't want to admit the possibility that these smart-allecky young whippersnappers might know more than I do, by golly. So I encourage all to be skeptical about my skepticism.(!)
Additional note: I was Deeply relieved to discover that the title of an article on "Racks" (
!), which I found on the Psychology Today page, led me only to a discussion of Scrabble Games.
P.S. Although I kind of liked the title: "There Are No Bad Racks"
motherinlaw wrote:
Thanks for posting articles written by "labcoats with their jive talk."
As a shrink myself, I try to keep up with the latest neurological research, with all the speculations thereby generated.
What we all want to know is, do you speak jive? And, if so, is it more of a Pootie Tang dialect?
Apr 9, 2013
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mendez1996 wrote:
i was reading the pamphlet they gave us at the supernationals tournament and the past highschool winners of the tournament have all went on to become some very smart people graduating from elite, ivy league school as doctors, engineers, etc.
Sorry to say this, but it sounds like you're not distinguishing between "correlation" and "causation." (The Hawthorne Effect: Your "experiment" may produce the results you initially predicted --- at least for awhile --- but Not for the Reasons you Initially Posited.)
For example: Kids who Start OUT Really Smart and who are Later encouraged to play chess by Good Mentors, may soon become really Good at chess, and so they Continue to improve, and when they win tournaments, they become even More Confident about their intelligence (rightly so!), and so they focus with even More Enthusiasm on academics, and then they do Really Well in high school and on their college essays, And their SAT's (since they're Not handicapped by "test anxiety"), and it follows that they get into "Good Schools," and by then, they've developed really effective study habits (Note: study habits that Fit with their own personalities and thus maximize their chances of success), and then, if they Do run into problems in school, they Don't Give Up, and they push through all the barriers to academic success and become Really Successful, partly Because they Already "Know" they're Smart, Because they "Won all those chess tournaments!" (and they're Right --- they Are Smart!)
Here's the logical fallacy (in my, apparently "not so humble" opinion): It's Not that they "increased their IQ's" --- Instead, they "maximized" their potentials" --- But, I suggest, it was a series of Emotional factors, not "chess" itself, that made the difference. (Of course, I'm just "saying" ........
)
http://www.theoldpath.tv/video/why-should-people-believe-in-god . Chess is logic, thus chessplayers always seeks reasons..does it even come up to your mind whether or not God really exists? if so, the link I provided might be helpful. Just click it and lsiten very carefully and digest it thoroughly into your mind.
o.o
Apr 12, 2013
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DrSpudnik wrote:
I don't know, look what 40 years of chess has done to my brain.
Of course I don't actually know you, but I suspect you're onto something there, especially since you added that little sad face to your comment. It seems you are Deeply Distressed by the thought that chess has caused you some brain damage! (Here's my little "winking" emoticon: ! Get it?)
And, hey -- are you the first one here to suggest a New forum question?: "Is chess Bad for the brain?" I'd love to hear all arguments in favor of that!
I'll start: I'm currently playing chess when I Could be doing aerobics, which gets oxygen and stuff into the brain, which the brain likes, so the brain is Happy, and a Happy brain is a Good brain!
Apr 12, 2013
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