The impact of chess on personality.

Chess is a game that is intellectual. So if you play chess that develops your frontal cortex where thinking occurs.

But with great intellect comes great understanding. You understand not only the chessboard but also the world around you. 

And let's face it, you don't like that world. It's not a chess position you can manouver to make the world a better place. You see it for what it is, a stinking dump of a world. And though you understand it you fail, like many martyrs before you, to change that world. It's like having a chess position before you. The best move is patzer level. It's so easy anybody could do it if they were god. But nobody is god. You try to move that peic but the chessboard is made of rock. It's peices are glued to the board like a stone carving of a board.

And you sigh. You can't change the world 

Even though most solutions to lifes problems are quite easy, club player class. Kindness, happiness, selflessness. Those are the moves. Yet nobody can make them alone. Yet the world at large doesn't want to doesn't care to make those moves. 

So chess turns you into a grumpy groo. A wise, but sad person. 

On the other hand, a game like swimming, or soccer, while builds muscle, certainly leaves the intellect well undeveloped. 

And that in this world is a good thing. It is good to be ignorant when the only truths are sad truths that cause pain. 

It gets better. Think of the underlying beauty of the game, and how that reflects the underlying beauty of life, as expressed in math (for instance).

Head too big. Focus on heart.

25+ trolling threads in less than 2 days by the OP. Seems we can assume chess has a negative effect on his personality. The intellectual part is a no brainer- non-existent. The username is offensive - it appears to slide by just under the radar.

This post is weird and toxic... I'm out...

That is right I just noticed that.

He is deserving of more abuse.

Igor, you know what to do in this situation.

Sometimes, a manager has to delegate tasks to underlings.

1. Anyone who would compare chess to issues in the real world has issues up here (taps head)

There are as you point out many positive parrells between chess and real world functions or subsystems. But the world at large needs compassion. A move as easy as the fools mate. And nobody can play that move alone. Yet a universal world of compassion is too idealistic too unrealistic. 

The beauty of the game is indisputable. It's the discrepancy between the perfection of chess and the real world which is the point being discussed. 

Very crudely put, but valid point. I was never a very cheerful fellow to begin with and chess just made me even more depressed as it enabled me to broaden my view of the world.