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Why Chess?
- It helps prevent Alzheimer’s disease. The brain works like a muscle, it needs exercise like any bicep or quad to be healthy and ward off injury. A recent study featured in The New England Journal of Medicine found that people over 75 who engage in brain-stretching activities like chess are less likely to develop dementia than their non-board-game-playing peers. Just like an un-exercised muscle loses strength, Dr. Robert Freidland, the study’s author, found that unused brain tissue leads to a loss of brain power. So that’s all the more reason to play chess before you turn 75.
- It grows dendrites. Dendrites are like antennas. You can think of them as signals from other brain cells. The more antennas youhave and bigger they are, the more signals you will pick up.
- Chess forges friendships. Chess enables you to meet many interesting people. You will make life-long friendships with people you meet through chess.
- It is a powerful tool that enables you to improve your focus. The game in itself is a wonderful guide to the seeker.
- Chess teaches Life.Learn the game, because it imitates life. A lot of giants have included this game into their pot of winning habits: Richard Branson, Anil Kumble,and Aamir Khan to name a few.
Chess improves you. It teaches you the importance of:
- Unity
- Discipline
- Patience
- Time
The game helps in developing cognitive skills as well:
- Memory
- Concentration
- Skills in decision making
- Problem Solving Ability
- Planning and Creativity
In a chess circle, a wise man once remarked,
“Show me your moves and I’ll tell you who you are.”
Our moves determine who we are. Chess is one game that helps us improve our personality.
Now that we are sufficiently stuffed with the answers to the basic question, let’s move further