The game on a 64-square board with figures of different shapes and categories has millions of fans around the world. But is chess useful, and what qualities can an ancient game develop?
Chess and responsibility
Since chess is played by two opponents who are initially in an equal position, it becomes clear that you can only lose because of your own mistakes and ill-considered moves. The board game has many followers of different levels of preparedness, therefore, with extensive practice, defeat cannot be avoided.
Sooner or later, an understanding of responsibility for one's actions comes. You often have to deal with problematic situations on the board. You need to do this on your own, without someone's help.
In the course of chess games, variations are continuously calculated in a game form. What helps to develop memory.
Such independence raises the general level of responsibility, without which the development of a full-fledged personality is unthinkable.
Logical thinking
In turn, the assumption of responsibility and defeat in games with a stronger opponent leads to the fact that the player begins to think over the steps (not only his own, but also the opponent's) several moves ahead. Such a sequence of thoughts, the actions and results associated with them, develop a coherent logic.
If a child plays chess from an early age, then most likely he will not have great difficulties with mathematics and physics at school.
Accuracy
In a struggle between two opponents of equal strength, any, even the most insignificant, inaccuracy can decide the fate of the party. The desire to win intellectually mobilizes all the available strength. This increases the desire for error-free play and develops accuracy.
Development of creative activity
Many outstanding chess players were renowned creators. For example, the sixth world champion, Vasily Smyslov, played the piano perfectly. Mikhail Tal, a great master of combinations who achieved success in the world chess arena, was an artist.
At the same time, the opposite picture is also true: many cultural figures found motives for creativity in a competition of minds on a black-and-white board. These are the director Stanley Kubrick, the writer Vladimir Nabokov, and the singer-songwriter Vladimir Vysotsky. The list goes on and on.
Chess also affects a person's worldview. Many great chess players have unique visions of politics and social processes. For example, oppositionists Fischer, Kasparov.
In many ways, such help for creative people is achieved due to the associativity and infinity of chess strategies, the beauty of individual plots of the game.
