He introduced the scientific method of looking at the game, a breakthrough that broke down thousand year old chess mysteries into easy to understand concepts that allowed millions around the world to understand chess like a master. This are all jokes…..this post almost give me a heart-attack! Arthur Berg The World Chess Federation (FIDE) and many other chess organizations use the Elo rating system to quantify the relative ability of chess players. If chess was such a great game why a big majority of chess players lived a short life? Reason 5 – Alexander Alekhine (world champ 1927-1935, 1937 – 1946): This guy spent over 12 hours a day doing nothing but playing and studying chess for over 40 years. But laser-like focus wasn’t always regarded as such a terrific thing. Chess as an “inferior” activity? ( Log Out / Those who are engaged in mental pursuits should avoid a chess-board as they would an adder’s nest, because chess misdirects and exhausts their intellectual energies. I had to read this! I have stopped it completely and will never touch even a piece of it again. Chess masters and expert musicians appear to be, on average, more intelligent than the general population. people think they deserve big prices. Hard-headed. I wonder why ppl are taking this seriously…. ( Log Out / And continue playing on the University of you touch his team until I graduated with high honors. This stupid theory based on 16 chess players is the most pathetic, or irrational way of seeing what chess really is. I’m sorry but this small list of a few outliers doesn’t prove anything. Reason 17: Same reason as when you spend most of your time in front of a display, (like reading these posts) – You are not exercising and will have shortened and lower quality of life with sedentary lifestyle. A pathological whiner, complaining about everything from 2 dead flies in his chair during the 1972 World Championship match to Kasparov and Karpov fixing games. the Olympic Games in Tokyo or, in chess, the cancelation of the World Candidates Tournament 2020. He spent the last decade of his life wandering around the streets of New Orleans aimlessly, talking to himself all the time. The population was addicted. …..Then 2 weeks later, a guy says, “If you play with yourself, you’ll always win”. Reason 7 – Mikhail Botvinik (world champ 1948–1957, 1958-1960, 1961-1963): The father of the Soviet School of Chess. you have no rights to write this crap. And humans use numerous abilities in playing chess. He was assassinated by Mossad in Portugal. I said, “Internet” and I told her the chess internet website (she didn’t care). Students are then randomly assigned to a chess-group and a control group. ill. Admit it you just can’t get good at chess and hated yourself so much. So what’s more interesting here isn’t the critique of chess. Reason 2 – Wilhelm Steinitz (world champ 1884-1894): The first official World Champion died in a lunatic asylum in New York, broke and flea infested. Criticism of the best players of chess by a nobody. Half-man, half-tiger. Viktor Korchnoi claimed Karpov and his people had a plot to finish him off had he won the 1978 World Championship match held in the notorious Baguio City. This requires work. Social media which actually has a negative effect on real socializing 4. He had a schicophrenia. You just claimed you are ELO 2092 by FIDE. Go too far in that direction and you wind up like Ahab in Moby Dick: Focused, sure, but also a total obsessive. Interested in more mentally challenging tasks like appearing with supermodel babes in million dollar budget advertisment videos for designer clothing. You r a mentally ill person contact a good doctor.. You wrote full of shits.. The good thing about the article is — made me check some of the facts… of course there were some -that is a very good fantasy :). It’s another thing to see a physical chess board with real pieces (to analyze my current games). It was Emerson whio said “…there is always compensation…”, chess like everything else in this world shoulfed be taken in small equal dosages over your entire life time. Reason 3 – Emmanuel Lasker (world champ 1894 – 1921): A mathematical genius. Respectfully, i do not believe you have any respect for these men of class. The game changer in chess history, Kasparov revolutionised the way the game is supposed to be played like no one before him. Here is an article that says what you learn from.chess, http://www.abikoyeolufemi.com/2014/04/07/chess-teaches-us/. During Chess we have only one goal to checkmate and become the winner hence it improves concentration. He wore the face of a seasoned, hardcore Armenian dictator. Period. 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