Is Chess Bad for your Brain?

Dr Spudnik posits that the resulting "free space" might constitute "a vast wasteland" --- This is clearly a discussion of Deep neurological puzzles! !--- which suggests that "chess forums" are a potential source of intellectual stimulation of which I was hitherto unaware!  So I'm re-evaluating my previous priorities:  I'll now try to eliminate the tiny bit of my "brain space" devoted to chess knowledge, and start filling this space with Insights from the Forums!! !  

It's a slippery slope, mil!

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So, are you saying here that this imaginary "eagle" could swoop down and "rescue me" from this imaginary "slippery slope" that you say I'd be on if I were to start, somehow, erasing my "chess memories," so that I could, supposedly, have more available "space" in my brain in which I could, presumably, store a whole new bunch of memories of "insights from the forums?"

I see.  So this, then, would be an example of an "insight from the forums." 

... perhaps I'll rethink my plan ....... I don't know ..... you've certainly given me a lot to think about ....

motherinlaw wrote:

..... you've certainly given me a lot to think about ....

First time that's happened. I think you've been playing too much chess.

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Haha, awesome.

You lot are all mad, which proves chess is bad for the brain.

Did chess make us crazy, or do crazy people get attracted to chess?

I have dialogue from lots of movies memorized in my brain. I wish I could swap some of those out for memorized Nimzo-Indian opening sequences.

Is this forum a chicken or an egg? Good grief!

You'll have to go back and start ab ova!

If someone could find a picture of a chicken playing chess that would prove it.

So the chicken must have come first or it would be an egg playing. Simple.

It's a vicious circle I tells you

A harsh lesson in the nature of fate and free will is about to transpire.

Free will is an illusion.

Or was that an allusion?

It's elusive.