There's absolutely no proof nor any evidence that moving these wooden pieces around black and white squares for hours, for days, for years, is considered mental fitness.........

There is absolute proof and evidence that tapping those keys on your personal computer for hours, if not days, if not years, has in your particular case, considerably reduced your mental fitness. Now go away Troll!........

that's not an argument at all FG, just abuse

chess is a distortion of life

There's absolutely no proof nor any evidence that moving these wooden pieces around black and white squares for hours, for days, for years, is considered mental fitness.

In biology, the relevant concepts are physical fitness, biological fitness, social fitness. Fitness encompasses all the abilities of the individual and relates to the environment, physical and social. And whatever is meant by "mental" is simply an abstraction from a complex life situation, not easy to define, not easy to measure.

In fact playing this silly game for hours and for years would indicate some serious lack of fitness, some mental disease, some obsession. Any healthy woman would be extremely wary of committing herself to a man who's dedicated wasting away his only life moving those pieces around those squares. Women, who have a major biological commitment to the continuation of life, are in general only put off by this occupation, and most of them prefer to stay away from wasting precious time in people who push those wooden men around those colored squares. At best, they see it as what it is, a child's game that adults have only very recently in history professionalized into an occupation. But this is a distortion of modern society.

In fact, quite a few top players ended up insane. Playing this game is a mark of some deep imbalance in life, and some inherent unfitness. A society of chess players would be quickly wiped off the surface of the earth by competing groups who would descend on them to steal the wooden pieces and wooden boards for their own fires.

Simply look at the faces and appearances of the players in top tournaments. Are they likely to attract the groupies who fall for the Beatles or Robert Redford, or or any top tennis player, movie star or musician?

Look at the grandly glorified Fischer! He was so surrounded by hordes of female groupies that he had to abandon the game to spend all his time carousing with them - not! The poor guy ended up like a tramp, even looking like one.

Speaking of mental fitness, fitness is success in life, success with women, and success in understanding the dialogue of communication within one's social group. You want to see success in communication within one's group? Look at the rhetoric used by Obama in his presidential campaign in the States. And compare it with the communication rhetoric of Kasparov in Russia.

There's absolutely no proof nor any evidence that moving these wooden pieces around black and white squares for hours, for days, for years, is considered mental fitness.

In biology, the relevant concepts are physical fitness, biological fitness, social fitness. Fitness encompasses all the abilities of the individual and relates to the environment, physical and social. And whatever is meant by "mental" is simply an abstraction from a complex life situation, not easy to define, not easy to measure.

In fact playing this silly game for hours and for years would indicate some serious lack of fitness, some mental disease, some obsession. Any healthy woman would be extremely wary of committing herself to a man who's dedicated wasting away his only life moving those pieces around those squares. Women, who have a major biological commitment to the continuation of life, are in general only put off by this occupation, and most of them prefer to stay away from wasting precious time in people who push those wooden men around those colored squares. At best, they see it as what it is, a child's game that adults have only very recently in history professionalized into an occupation. But this is a distortion of modern society.

In fact, quite a few top players ended up insane. Playing this game is a mark of some deep imbalance in life, and some inherent unfitness. A society of chess players would be quickly wiped off the surface of the earth by competing groups who would descend on them to steal the wooden pieces and wooden boards for their own fires.

Simply look at the faces and appearances of the players in top tournaments. Are they likely to attract the groupies who fall for the Beatles or Robert Redford, or or any top tennis player, movie star or musician?

Look at the grandly glorified Fischer! He was so surrounded by hordes of female groupies that he had to abandon the game to spend all his time carousing with them - not! The poor guy ended up like a tramp, even looking like one.

Speaking of mental fitness, fitness is success in life, success with women, and success in understanding the dialogue of communication within one's social group. You want to see success in communication within one's group? Look at the rhetoric used by Obama in his presidential campaign in the States. And compare it with the communication rhetoric of Kasparov in Russia.

I'd hate to think what Ax might do if he was still around, thank Caissa he didn't have to see this

Simple Simon

Says a lot, it is all I can add to this frivolous debate

I could get on the soapbox and profess many things, but I will not get down in the pig pen and get dirty.

- DrJ

Chess is a just a game and some nerds and idiots like the person who wrote this article are making it such a big deal.

Some fools end up studying chess thories for hours. I would rather study theories in physics.

I dont think the Indians who invented this game would have in their wildest dreams thought this game would make useless nerds out of humans.

Play chess to enjoy the game and not to attract others or have sex and not to find admiration from some jobless people around you.

Some people just want themselves to be proclaimed a "genius" which in no way they are. All these nerds are so selfish.

I like chess but for the reason I can have fun with the game.

Its a shame that people have to learn chess theories to be good.

And all the people who play this game, the real fools who spend so much time on a board game just to make money and fame and earn a genius tag, they are fooling themselfs.