The game of chess is often described as problem solving at its finest. It’s a game that requires strategic thinking, creativity, determination and even the ability to properly analyze body language. It’s a game that exercises the mind and is highly beneficial to mental and intellectual development. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 5 surprising benefits of playing chess.

It Exercises Both Sides of the Brain

Studies have shown that playing chess involves the use of the brain’s left hemisphere (which deals with object recognition) and the brain’s right hemisphere (which deals with pattern recognition). Mainly because of the rules and techniques of the chess game, you end up effectively exercising and developing both sides of your brain over time.

Improves Thinking and Problem Solving Skills

Especially in children, learning and playing chess helps to significantly improve thinking, problem-solving and reading skills. The game’s complexity and the fact that problem-solving is foundational for tackling this complexity and winning the game, eventually helps to improve and develop the brain’s capacity and capability for thinking and problem solving overtime.

Improves the Brain’s Performance

Learning and playing a game like chess actually helps to stimulate the growth of dendrites (an extension of a nerve cell that conducts signals from the neuron cells in your brain to the neuron they are attached to). The growth of these dendrites in turn helps increase the speed and improves the quality of neural communications throughout the brain. This increased processing power ultimately improves the brain’s performance.

It Helps Creativity

Mainly because playing chess exercises the right side of brain, it helps to enhance creativity and originality. The game greatly enhances creative abilities as it makes the player consider, analyze and prioritize a wide variety of possibilities. Playing chess contributes significantly to growth and development in creative thinking.

It Improves Memory

The rules of the game that have to be remembered, alongside the memory recall needed to avoid mistakes and remember the specific opponent’s playing style, contribute to the memory improvement and optimization that playing chess offers. Playing chess largely helps to enhance memory performance and recall.

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True

But it also makes people go mad. you can ask Bobby Fischer.
respect to Magnus Calsen, Gary Kasparov.


modified: my best game after football

#FACT

Who chess epp

In Chess for me


There's nothing better than laying the Queen with a Bishop

Who wanna play chess with me.?

Sure it does make one think smart.

fact

Any chess checkmate player in the house..

Correct

Your right.. good chess players are very fast thinkers and quite intelligent too

So it doesn't help with "chyking" babes

You can play politics well

CHESS GANG

tintingz:
Who wanna play chess with me.?

Come

Tell em

Chess is the most advanced board game ever!!
Download one today!!!

Every space Bookers and land grabbers on this thread .. Die by *****!!!!

I'm not sure anybody can beat me in chess. if you think you can let me know
not bragging sha

I have seen badass chess players that are dull academically...!!

tintingz:
Who wanna play chess with me.?

we can play online @instantchess.

kinkybunny:
I'm not sure anybody can beat me in chess.
if you think you can let me know

not bragging sha

if i hear say i no use 4 moves finish you.

As much as chess is great and all that...gimme god of war,assassin's creed or COD any day...and my brain will become sharper than a two edged sword,my intellect improves,my memory improves,my brain is exercised wella and so much more...oh and I learn how to be tactical...can I use these skills in real life...emphatically YES

#ChessMaster......Who's up for a challenge?

My best game. I like the war strategies.

I need to play chess oo
any body in ogudu or ojota

Queen of Katwe

Any Chess Player In Mosho? Signify For Challenge.

NwaAmaikpe:


Nothing better than laying the Queen with a Bishop

Isn't that heresy?

kinkybunny:
I'm not sure anybody can beat me in chess.
if you think you can let me know

not bragging sha

A few questions though, what are your favorite openings? Who is your favorite player? Do you have a fide rating? Answer these questions and I will believe you are not bragging.