Originally posted by RochadeThe dog shags the girlfriend? While you both watch?? If not that, then your friend waits for you to arrive before shagging the girlfriend?! 🙄
Chess has granted to me countless hours of relaxation while playing one of my pals.
IT is my regular Friday evening excercise and we celebrate it.
I drive to my best pal. We get the dog out, he sh@gs his girlfriend into sweet dreams. Then Bach is turned on the chimney is lit and the whiskey is pulled out. We set the pieces and play on and on just dri ...[text shortened]... ical discussions all start the ongoing paralysis of the human body).
AAAAAAAAH That´´s chess
Originally posted by RahimKChess has given me hapiness. It's like artwork. It's different everytime, twisting in weird variations that you can control. It's your art, it's your game! Chess is difficult, which is why it is strangely fulfilling. as a grand master once said "I'd rather lose a finger than lose a pawn." Of course I'd rather keep my finger, but you get the point.
I want to know why you continue playing chess?
I spend an average of 2 hours each day on it, playing and studying. I know a lot of you spend just as much time or more on chess.
Why do you spend so much time on it? What will chess do for you? What has chess done for you so far?
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Originally posted by BigDoggProblemNo the dog doesn´t shag anymore because its b@lls were slashed away some time now.
The dog shags the girlfriend? While you both watch?? If not that, then your friend waits for you to arrive before shagging the girlfriend?! 🙄
And yes he indeed waits for me to arrive cause he can´t do it on hits own to sh@g her to sleep. But as a pal i am always ready to help him out. :-)
Chess meets many basic needs: intellectual stimulation and lifelong learning, international relationships, political intrigue, individual and team competition, cross-generational play. I enjoy watching great players at great tournaments (sometimes with live video feed), as well as helping more than a hundred youth gather to compete (as a scholastic tournament director).
Chess also pays me because I coach players in several schools.
Originally posted by RochadePity about the dog. Although I'm sure you're doing well in his stead.
No the dog doesn´t shag anymore because its b@lls were slashed away some time now.
And yes he indeed waits for me to arrive cause he can´t do it on hits own to sh@g her to sleep. But as a pal i am always ready to help him out. :-)
(ok, ok, I'll quit giving you grief now...)
I concur on the intellectually stimulating effects of chess. It's good mental practice to imagine variations and the possibilities that those variations produce. I think of chess as having no "rules". The peices have rules that describe how they can move and then the 8x8 64 square board provides a medium through which those movements can occur. I like the wide-openness this creates. I can't think of another game that offers such an astronomical number of possibilities.
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Originally posted by Darth SpongeFYI ... GO is more complex
I concur on the intellectually stimulating effects of chess. It's good mental practice to imagine variations and the possibilities that those variations produce. I think of chess as having no "rules". The peices have rules that describe how they can move and then the 8x8 64 square board provides a medium through which those movements can occur. I lik ...[text shortened]... es. I can't think of another game that offers such an astronomical number of possibilities.
I've heard of Go, but don't know much about it. I'll conceed that it might be more complex than chess. However, in keeping with my predilection for variations, I'll change my mind about why I like chess: The peices are funny looking. The pointy one makes me laugh...
chess has gotten me through countless boring hours at work. it also used to get me out of physics class in highschool.
it has also tought me a lot, as people siad, about patience, foresight, etc. It has offered itself as a cultural bridge in my travels. it has provided a great backdrop to some of the better conversations I've had in this life.
..a while ago i took one of those online I.Q test. I scored very high in the math portion. The review said i could be a scientist, or some crazy math type job.
It recomended i do puzzles, like crosswords, etc to increase my cognative abilitys, etc. Of course it recomended also playing chess.
I was thinking recently the reason i scored high on the math part was chess! I guess it shaped my analytical thinking, like a computer figures out an alogrithm.
Chess is for sure good for the brain!
I have put more hours into chess then any of my A-levels mostly due to the fact we have a board at school and I have never said no to a game unless its because some other people want use of the board. What else has chess done for me? Well I see the world as a chess board people who want to help me or my friends are my side the weak will ones are pawns the people who I don't get on with are the other side and the people I don't know are empty suqares.
