PatzerLars wrote:
And what is a hifive then ?
A "hifive", is a word used by the homeless for describing the difficulties in accepting five dollar bills from basketball players.
Is Chess Really Good for Your Brain?
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Mar 5, 2012
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It maybe good for your brain but can also wastes a lot of time...but time wasnt the question here.
(Although it depends what your idea of time wasting is. However, it is still sort of a good waste of time - if you understand what I mean (better than drinking or gholf or so). However, life is about finding a good balance between using time and killing time. So it is not a waste really. And it MAY improve you brain somehow....)
On another thread, I posted how Bobby Fischer visited me in an ethereal epiphany on Christmas Eve and taught me the finer nuances of bullet Fischer random chess.
So, I implemented the Whirlygig Opening, played the Chainsaw Midgame, the Clobber You Endgame and, finally, the Kabosh technique. All the usual stuff. This resulted in the Kaput!!!, as shown below.
Unfortuneately, I lost all my pawns plus a knight and bishop during the assault. Yet I did keep my King squirreled out of harm's way and did manage to pull off a quad checkmate...barely, though.
But, a win is a win. I vowed to do better next time.
Oops! My bad. Yes, chess is good for the brain.
At a young age, I was diagnosed with Non-verbal learning disablility. My father introduced me to chess shortly after this believing it would be good for my brain. It was only a few years before my NLD was almost completely gone. Thanks be to God, as I know he was the main reason. But chess was also a great help I think. Chess has improved my ablility to analyze and memorize, and I highly reccomend it if you are trying to improve your brain. Who knows? You might even enjoy it and become good at it.
Chess makes your brain work, so yes it helps. Especially older people.
e4nf3 wrote:
Well anyway, James, I spun off topic and posted a hortatory rant about cigars.
Forget that I posted it. Women are generally smarter than men, and that’s why they tend to eschew both cigars and chess.
Now, the subject at hand was playing fezzik.
BTW, in passing, I mentioned to him that you have played more than 60,000 games of online blitz. Just making pleasant conversation. He said that he has played over 120,00 online blitz games and that you are a chess louche (I'll have to look that one up next time I go down to the library) and that he would like to play you…”trounce you”, as I recall…and that the winner would get to shove a 60-ring Churchill up the loser’s butt.
Well, I told him that although I'm not your agent, I’m sure that you'd oblige. You have my vote of confidence, James. I told him I’d be willing to place a five dollar wager on you.
On another thread, I posted how Bobby Fischer visited me in an ethereal epiphany on Christmas Eve and taught me the finer nuances of bullet Fischer random chess.
So, I implemented the Whirlygig Opening, played the Chainsaw Midgame, the Clobber You Endgame and, finally, the Kabosh technique. All the usual stuff. This resulted in the Kaput!!!, as shown below.
Unfortuneately, I lost all my pawns plus a knight and bishop during the assault. Yet I did keep my King squirreled out of harm's way and did manage to pull off a quad checkmate...barely, though.
But, a win is a win. I vowed to do better next time.
Oops! My bad. Yes, chess is good for the brain.
Impressive, since fezzik was a notorious cheater.
Kikook wrote:
Chess makes your brain work, so yes it helps.
It seems to be so, but it's hard to find evidence that it's good your brain to work.
There's some kind of a paradoxal improbity in that wide-spread belief's truthfulness' claims, you know - as rational testimony would inherently be subjective.
Mar 6, 2012
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The idea that chess is good for childrens' brains also helps club players to convince their wives why so much time must be spend on chess:
Husband-A and Wife-A in kitchen-A:
Husband-A: Honey, remember that I take the kids to the chess tournament this weekend.
Wife-A: Not again - dont you ever get tired of chess? When are we going to my mother for a weekend? And just look how long is the grass.
Husband-A: eee...actually I go for the kids. Remember that it is good for their brains.
Wife-A and Wife-B in coffee shop-C:
Wife-B: Are you going to the see the new movie this weekend?
Wife-A: No, the kids have to play chess. It is good for their brains.
Wife-B and Huband-B in kitchen-B:
Wife-B: Wife-A's kids are going to the chess this weekend. Dont you think OUR kids should also do something that is good for their brains?
Husband-B: They play Warcraft, isnt that good for their brains?
Wife-B: That stupid computer games you and the kids play. You better get them to the chess the weekend.
Husband-B: (thinking) Mmmmm....maybe Husband-A and me can have a drink afterwards.....
And so the rumour is spreading that chess is good for your brain...
On a serious note I think it may be very good for the brain over the long term but not over the short term.
Brain...shmaine... It's all a lie.
Chess is an ungodly game, a heathen and visceral fight to the death. The tools are chicanery, scoundrelism, conniving, plotting and planning, stealth and subterfuge...all with the goal of killing your foes and their king and then stealing their women, whiskey and cigars.
I'll have no part of it.
"Excellence at Chess is one mark of a scheming mind", said Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
"Chess is ruthless; you've got to be prepared to kill people", said Nigel Short.
Those are two more reasons why chess should be prohibited. For Father's sake, aren't there better ways to use your mind if you are so fond of that? Chessing someone to death isn't humane at all.
"My opponent is Short and the match will be short". Very generous of Garry Kasparov. He seems to be on the right way.
Pawnstripper wrote:
I'm a neurologist who specializes in dementia. Several studies have shown that board or card games that require planning and strategy (and more recently physical exercise) do help to delay the cognitive decline associated with aging.
Unfortunately, several studies have also shown that believing studies is one of the symptoms of cognitive decline.
If anyone has a brain, they should use it to comprehend that playing chess results in brain infarctions (as exhibited by some of the best..Morphy, Fischer, et al...too numerous to catalog), dyspepsia and numbnutitis...here, see for yourself: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=numbnuts
Picture your brain in a frying pan. Don't do it!
Besides which, too frequently you'll end up looking like this:
And, you'll probably spend a lot of time evaluating:
FINALLY: The Difference between Nerd, Dork, and Geek Explained by a Venn Diagram
By Great White Snark | March 25, 2010
To all of you nerds and geeks who–like me–have been unfairly and inaccurately labeled “dorks,” only to then exhaustively explain the differences among the three to a more-than-skeptical offender, I say:
You’re welcome. This nerd/dork/geek/dweeb Venn diagram should save you a lot of time and frustration in the future.
To those of you who have been called “dweebs,” I say:
Stop hanging out with people from the 1950s.
This is what chess does to people.
ONLY if you did win the game or are in a winning situation :)
GIex wrote:
This is what chess does to people.
ROFL
LOL
Ziryab wrote:
e4nf3 wrote:
Well, lads, I've got to tell you this...
In this current era of political correctnes and de-gendered and de-masculinized manhood, there are still five things that are still allowed (well, semi-allowed, I suppose) in the realm of manliness.
These three things include growing facial hair (I happen to have a mustache and beard) and enjoying a fine, handmade cigar on occasion. The other three things? I've forgotten what they are and (probably drinking a lot of Scotch is one of them), in addition, they are irrelevant to the point at hand.
Now, I'm not talking about the cheap cigars that you can buy for a few coins at the local supermarket. I'm not knocking them, either...they are OK for "knocking around". I'm talking about premium, handrolled stuff...made in Cuba (which is illegal to buy in the U.S.A), Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, as prime examples.
An occasional premium cigar is...well, I should say "was"...a celebration of a fine event and one of the things that were manly (of course, about a decade ago, cigars became fashionable for women, too, but the trend fizzled out).
Nor does it mean that someone who enjoys an occasional premium cigar has an addiction. I have a humidor containing dozens. I smoke three per week (that's all my wife allows...LOL...true) and I only smoke them outside, on my porch or at a cigar lounge (rarely...but nice...leather chairs/sofas, candy-store sized walk-in cigar humidor) which is among the last of a "man's club" (women are welcome, but they are generally absent by choice).
So, this "addiction", this stick-it-up someone's butt talk...this is the talk of politically correct boys and girly men.
What I've said is not for the promotion of anything. Nor am I looking for a debate on this issue. I'm just giving my personal perspective. One viewpoint...even if being a man nowadays means being a dickless wonder.
Amen.
Whiskey, whether Scotch or Bourbon, and a cigar is not so much an expression of manliness, but the essence of civilization itself.
I smell pretension somewhere... where is it coming from?
Please use the correct language. A "hijack", is a greeting to someone named John, or Jackson. A "threadjack", usually has a maple syrup topping.
Strawberries or plums that have been tippled in Sake are good on threadjacks with a bit of whipped cream. The carbs are food for the brain, too, so this meal can be recommended the morning of a chess tournament.
Now that would be quite the yummy threadjack!