The loonie effect

A friend of mine thinks that for someone's chess-related skills to be overdeveloped,certain social ones should be sacrificed.She is also of the opinion that any socially adept individual will never stick to games like chess or Go,although he may give blackjack or poker a try.

So what?

your friend sounds like an ass.  i know more poker players with zero social graces than I do chess players with the same.

Tell her social skills take a week to develop while chess takes a life time and you spend your time accordingly.

Thats totally untrue. I knew businessmen who play their entire life chess and are really great in it, they sometimes play for hours with strangers when waiting for a flight or something-

also by tby accident many people who are good in chess are also good in poker, what i still find some kind of weird.

Okay, so maybe chess players are not exactly party animals, who cares?

very good one

That sounds logical. Something has to be sacrificed for the time that it takes to get really good at chess. A high rated chess player has a good chance to be pretty ignorant of many areas of life. 

and the low rateds gifted at everything outside of chess.

well thats just crap.  The whole idea presupposes the fact that someone with the required social grace's would not consciously make the decision to apply themselves at chess.  and what is this the definition of being social?  Alot of friends?  what kind of friends??  What social echelon are we trying to reach?  It may be said that relationships require alot of work even casual ones.  If a person is more interested in developing their chess repetoire that week so be it perhaps he/she may slack on the social stuff and not take to keeping up with the Joneses or made certian social commitments.  In that regard the way I see it is solitary people have advantage at chess with the required study base.  So too I guess a person with severe off-putting tics may take to chess. I consider chess to be An Art Form and prefer the company of artistic type's. 

I was so happy when poker became big, because all the Type-A personality jerks from the chess club disappeared.

lol

polly wanna cracker ?

Maybe she is saying that you need patience to play chess, i am not entirely sure

Well, admittedly, in order to become dexterous at any game, you have to invest time in practice and study which you would otherwise have spent at parties, conventions etc. 

I do believe however, I spend too much time on the computer in general, but that's a different story.

Lol, I'll have a cracker 

I once played chess with the barkeeper in a club while waiting for more guests to ripple in. ^^

How about a peanut?

i was really hungry a few nights ago and i ate a half packet of peanuts. anyway, to cut a long story short (or is it the other way around) next morning i looked like i sunburnt my face! i've been always eating monkey nuts without a reaction and suddenly boom! peanut allergy!! sudocream did the job though. yah Ruby, it'd be nice to share a cream cracker 'n cheese with you.

i wonder how many chess players with overdeveloped skill really post in forums

i don't