Is chess worth getting good at?
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Is chess worth getting good at?
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Look at what technology is doing in Syria.
Feb 15, 2016
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You do it because it's fun. You don't owe the world anything and you're going to die either way, and eventually, Andromeda is going to eat the Milky Way for lunch.
KevinLudwig wrote:
You do it because it's fun. You don't owe the world anything and you're going to die either way, and eventually, Andromeda is going to eat the Milky Way for lunch.
LOL
It's a worthwhile goal, IMO. Better than being bad at it. A good chess player will always have an aura of "wow", because chess is safely ingrained as one of the lofty pursuits of the human mind. Its status is secure.
Really? Didn't know about the weight loss. Great point there and still great question.
Feb 16, 2016
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Khaxtro wrote:
Really? Didn't know about the weight loss. Great point there and still great question.
It's true. Once I become focussed on chess I start losing weight even though I don't want to. I'm now trying to bulk up again, haha.
i'm not at all trying to get good at chess.
I play it for fun and leave at it.
Your argument is like saying why do all the things we even do(watch movies, spend time with people etc..etc..) and just concentrate on coding or whatever you are implying.
Don't listen to Absolute_Bull QueenforQueen, he is a guy posing as a woman and when I exposed him and his lie he blocked me. So much for a strong mind and confidence. Also chess is totally not worth getting good at unless you think there are prizes for the biggest geek. Which there are not.
>Normies
Stopped reading.
/r9k/ please leave.
It depends what your life goals are. Some people have goals to make master/IM/GM/etc., and as long as you have some awareness of what achieving those goals will and won't do for you, then why not? Improving at chess might as well be one of them.
However, as a practical matter, not everyone has the time chess demands to significantly improve. Most players will never become good enough to make (chess) tournament playing a viable enough living, and not everyone's either interested in or cut out to be a chess teacher. So for many people, improving at chess is a primarily intrinsic (as opposed to extrinsic) reward.
Bottom line is nobody can adequately answer the question you posed, other than you. Other people can tell you about their lives and their own interests and goals, but those won't necessarily be accurate representations of yours.
Learning programming is definitively more worthwhile a time investment than learning chess. It takes far, far more time and effort to get to master level skills in chess, than what it would take you to write a basic chess programm that beats your average 2100+ player, and you can actually make money off your time investment.
As a hobby it's perfectly fine, though, I'd suggest giving Go a go, too.
I think the OP is thinking of chess all wrong. the questions should BE,
Since I'm obsessively Interested in chess ( I love playing it and thinking about it)- Isn't it IMPORTANT not to be INEPT at it!?
in short, shouldn't people be GOOD at things they LOVE doing?
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otherwise I'm totally with checkmate on life in general. there's a lot of unrewarding chores i'm expected to obsess on. chess is a charming little board game and tons funner than trying to smack a little white ball in a hole.
Feb 16, 2016
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#16
If you have to ask that question to begin with you're better off doing something else.
You've played 1400 games and have a rating of 1000, no amount of time and studying will be enough to get good at chess, you don't have the aptitude for it.
the bunny is right on the money!
Well like any hobby out there the core reason (s) usually as to continuing to craft your art is a passion or enjoyment of it. You might not ever be so good that you can make a living playing chess, but you could perhaps be a chess tutor, author, or web developer. As with most hobbies the smallest percentage of people are truly on top and making money doing what they love ( athletes, poker players, pool players ) while the rest of us attain knowledge through school or college or whatever.
I mean if you think about it, to actually get good at chess (2000+ rating) it takes several months (if you're gifted) or several years (normie). Throughout this time you have to read dozens of chess books and countlessly do tactics, watch videos and play the game on a daily basis.
Now, how practical is it when you do actually become good? Does chess make your life easier? Are you an improved person if you master chess?
Or would all that time be better off being spent learning something else? Does chess exercize your brain any different then lets say mathematics?
For example, Bobby Fisher had dedicated his entire life to chess and had read countless books and played on a daily basis. Here's a picture of his books
https://images.chesscomfiles.com/uploads/images_users/tiny_mce/notmtwain/phpubFOBw.jpeg
If you dedicated even 1/10th as much time to lets say learning software engineering (or even just coding), wouldn't you be superior? You would probably be JUST as smart and also have a very useful skill for the real world, not to mention you'd be aiding humanity in evolving technologically (that's where we are headed anyways).