He would have been better off serving tea in the Vienna cafes where he began his chess career. He introduced the scientific method of looking at the game, a breakthrough that broke down thousand year old chess mysteries into easy to understand concepts that allowed millions around the world to understand chess like a master. Reason 2 – Wilhelm Steinitz (world champ 1884-1894): The first official World Champion died in a lunatic asylum in New York, broke and flea infested. He spent the last decade of his life wandering around the streets of New Orleans aimlessly, talking to himself all the time. Chess rearranged his neurons and he was no longer the same. Within 2 years of playing international chess, he went cuckoo. Reason 1 – Paul Morphy (world champ 1857-1859): Regarded as the first unofficial World Champion.
I will present 17 solid reasons why this happens using the World Champions as examples. It leads to bad habits like alcoholism, anti-semitism, extreme arrogance, vindictiveness and encourages the development of mental illnesses. Because chess is actually harmful to the mind, body and soul. Chess represents in humanity some sort of super-intelligence only matched by creatures from outer space. Chess is called ‘the royal game’, a game historically associated with the powerful and awesome, Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Vladimir Lenin. Parents of chess playing kids like to boast to other parents: ‘mine plays chess’. Blue chip companies in Europe are on the lookout for Grandmasters with some sort of university degree. Kids become intelligent overnight after learning the moves. Chess is considered very good for the brain.
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