Personally, I don't think of chess as a challenging problem-solving activity that sharpens one's analytical or mental abilities. least, not any longer.
It's mainly because of the pattern recognition.
To me, it’s just a specific category of skill. If I keep training for chess, I will only improve at chess. I think our mind is just a pattern recognition machine. If we train ourselves to recognize the patterns of chess, we will only improve in chess and not in other skills. If you invest the same amount of time in other skills, you will specifically improve in those skills.
Chess is also not an ego-crushing game for me like it used to be. At this point, it has become a habit of mine. If I don't play chess, I don’t feel good. It has nothing to do with winning or losing. It's just a useless habit that contributes no quality to my life.
Fiona isnt a gm, never mind
There arent any this is my point its not just nature its also cultural, Maruice ashley is the only black gm i know of and Tanitoluwa, its even worse for the counterpart, im not implying race is important im demonstrating that the culture is a big role and the two could be related, but i think its just a follow the leader situation. In china learning is more important than love lmao
Yeah man i just found out about tani like a month ago, but i simply think its just cause black americans simply dont care (i'm black and african). And i mean they really dont care about chess or its benefits. Its just a dumb board game. Too make chess popular in the black community all you gotta do is find away to get alcohol and money mixed into it, or turn chess into gambling or something, then theyd care. But even then they wont take the game to the extremes of being a gm and its saddening but if they dont care, i do, and ill just continue to learn and play. Its just a board game to them, and there has to be a point behind it. If not its rendered useless.
See this was racist lol not my post lmao