Is Chess Bad for your Brain?

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motherinlaw

Tonto right. Chess good.  Like Ubik42 say 2 posts ago.  Only sometimes MIL'S brain hurt after chess.  Maybe MIL not doing it right. 

Annabella1

Chess is good for your brain.....I think???  lol

motherinlaw

:-D! -- Love that picture! 

DrSpudnik

The evidence is mounting!

cabadenwurt

Interesting topic by the OP. However the real question is how would a person know if Chess is bad for the brain ? I mean if a person started playing Chess and it is bad then it is TOO LATE after the games are underway ( ie: by then the camel already has his nose under the tent flap ).

landwehr

my experience is that chess is as good for your brain as sex!

DrSpudnik

Oh great, now we need to find chess players who've had sex.

TKACHS

Only if you have to take a golf cart to the chess board!

malko

This is your brain on chess, with bacon

DrSpudnik

Looks like greasy hair too!

motherinlaw
DrSpudnik wrote:

Oh great, now we need to find chess players who've had sex.

Laughing! (Have you been nominated in the "Funniest Chess Player?" forum?!)

DrSpudnik

No. My low-key approach (and desire not to be muzzled) limits my usual style. About a year ago, I was much more outrageous. But a number of trolls pretty much ruined it for everyone.

netzach

Damn those trolls. They spoil all the best forums.

motherinlaw

Look, if you just Answer the 3 questions without being a Smarta__, they'll let you go over the bridge!  (oh, I forgot, we all have brain damage, now.Cry!)

DrSpudnik

I can barely tie my shoes any more!

Eoin_From_Eire

Well it all depends really. There are a few cases of ches players really going crazy. But if you play chess, somewhat competativly, but mostly for fun and a few tournaments here and there, I think it is good for your brain. I started chess abooout, 5 months ago? end of december. But I have noticed my memory has increased, I can remember things easier. Plus getting good at chess at a decently quick pace has really made me feel great, like I have accomplished something in my life finally. So chess can be good or stressful, it depends on the person, how they are, how serious they are and how well they deal with preassure and failue.

heinzie

Imagine all the free space if all the chess memories were removed from your brain

DrSpudnik

It would truly be a vast wasteland!

heinzie

By imagining extra free space, in your brain, does there really appear extra free space in your brain? Questions, questions...

heinzie

I ask this because I was imagining all the free memory slots I could possibly have if I forgot all the chess