Seven Reasons Why Everyone Should Play Chess

 

Chess is a casual/competitive board game played between two players with or without time limit. It is originated from INDIA. Today, chess is considered to be the world’s  most popular board game, played by millions of people around the globe at household, in clubs, in schools, by correspondence, in colleges and in tournaments.

Chess is a highly intellectual strategy game . It is played on a square shaped chessboard painted with alternate black and white squares. 64 squares arranged in an 8X8 grid. At the start, each player (one plays white pieces, the other plays with black pieces ) controlling  sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The main objective of the game is to find in the mating net and checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way for it to escape. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw.

 

Chess championships  today are held and  governed internationally by FIDE (International Chess Federation). The first World Chess Championship winner was Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; In present time Magnus Carlsen is the World Champion.

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Now lets start with the Seven Reasons Why Everyone Should Play Chess :

1. Chess Connects the people together

Chess can be considered an invaluable tool that can connect with people from all walks of life, to get onto the board with 32 pieces. During the outbreak of corona pandemic in the year 2020 the world came to a halt with banned all over outdoor activities, whereas The game of chess spread around the globe as fire with the help of our great streamers but in India chess outbreak credits goes to Samay Raina along with ChessBase India & Vidit gujarati As a result, this journey has brought people together from different countries, ages, and cultures over a Single Black & White  board.

2. Chess improves Focus

As said by our one of the greatest player of chess  Bobby Fischer, "Chess demands total concentration." A single blunder move played in the Game by a person can make him loose the entire game or A single brilliant move can make the person win the game  hence the game demands complete involvement and focus on the board. This intense focus is very useful in day to day life while doing our work, while studies ,while preparing for exams, while driving on the road and many more. In short chess help us improve our ability to focus and thus increasing our concentration Power.  

3. Chess helps you develop Self-Confidence

Chess not only helps a player by increases the  level of mental strength but also it boosts the level of self-pride and self-confidence when someone wins such a challenging game. This skillset sometimes goes far beyond the chessboard and builds confidence that helps in day to day life, benefitting children, teenagers, adults and everyone who falls in love with chess.

4. Chess Helps improving Problem-Solving ability

In every game of chess you are facing different challenges, problems and positions of the pieces that you have never played before. You have to solve that in order to play the best possible move in the game. Chess helps you thinking ahead of the upcoming situations, not to rush into your decisions without thinking twice, and calculating the pluses and minuses of choices that you have made. This more or less relates to the challenges that we face in our day to day life, and just as in chess, we try our level best to make the best possible decisions to develop positive outcomes that brings a change to our lives.

5. Chess makes you stay calm under pressure

During an intense game of chess where you are running out of time for the game where you have given every possible thing to the game. But still you have to make critical decisions under the pressure of time while being calm to avoid any possible blunders. For that You have to be intensely focused, while at the same time remaining calm so that your brain can work to its maximum. In our everyday life we all faces same pressure with deadlines, presentations, interviews, exams and workloads. Just as in a chess game, we have to remain confident and calm to perform our level best. 

6. Chess improves memory 

It is been observed that the Chess GrandMasters are expert players that  have strong memory skills such that they remembers most of all the games that they have played. After all, the game involves remembering various combinations of moves and their possible outcomes in order to win the game.

It’s also attention-grabbing to note that professional chess players show higher performance in recollecting memory games. This is their ability to remember what they have achieved in years of playing chess.

In one experiment, researchers compared the recall ability of professional chess players to the of people who have never played chess.  They found out that the chess players were significantly better at recalling lists of things they’d heard than people who had no experience of playing chess.

Experienced  chess players also can remember and quickly recognize visual patterns better that anyone else who have never played chess in their life, which researchers think comes from memorizing complex chess positions on the board over the years.

7. Chess develops the ability to see from someone else’s perspective 

professional chess players learn to predict the opponent’s next moves over the course of the training. To anticipate what another person’s next move will be, a player must develop the ability to adopt another person’s perspective and infer what action they are likely to take.

Behavioral scientists named this the ability to look from other persons viewpoint the “theory of mind.” It’s an ability that is required to exercise empathy and building healthy social relationships. In a study conducted in 2019 found that chess develops this perspective-taking ability in children who practice the gameof chess.

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