IMO it depends on who one is and in what circumstance one find’s oneself. Blitz chess requires some fairly quick thinking. Taking more than 3 or 4 seconds to analyze the board and develop a move is mental lethargy. Maybe a formula one driver wouldn’t find the pace quick- I can’t say. It is possible in life to get into some fairly slow, watching the paint dry kind of living that require few intellectual challenges that need to be solved instantly. Blitz and bullet chess in some respects are comparable to juggling. Chess sharpens thought substantially in regard to time and quantity and quality of accurate decision making. Perhaps even more so for older people.
Consider adults sitting much time in a room listening to the clock tick and maybe watching hours of television, possible in the dark. Not a lot of brain activity occurs. T.V. is rather dumbing. To watch late night T.V. or review a few SuperGM games?
A couple of hours of blitz chess would be a substantial upgrade in brain exercise for many average people. Blitz chess might serve the same purpose as reading in keeping brain waves active for the elderly and is therapeutic. Good physicians should prescribe blitz chess at recommended dosages to be conservative about keeping people healthy. Yet one should keep chess benefits in perspective; for there are opportunity costs to playing so many free on-line blitz games at whatever age. One might have been doing something else like sipping lemonade and swatting flies.
The internet affords easy access to a world of useful information good for oneself and for-others. Chess is one simple, intellectual recreation that can help keep one focused yet relaxed when not pursuing other intellectual ventures such as investigating trends in public budgeting globally, reading about advances in quantum theory or comparing the fighting styles of Povetkin, Joshua, Wilder and Fury. Chess is just another intellectual pursuit yet it’s a game and a very fun participatory one at that.
Consider adults sitting much time in a room listening to the clock tick and maybe watching hours of television, possible in the dark. Not a lot of brain activity occurs. T.V. is rather dumbing. To watch late night T.V. or review a few SuperGM games?
A couple of hours of blitz chess would be a substantial upgrade in brain exercise for many average people. Blitz chess might serve the same purpose as reading in keeping brain waves active for the elderly and is therapeutic. Good physicians should prescribe blitz chess at recommended dosages to be conservative about keeping people healthy. Yet one should keep chess benefits in perspective; for there are opportunity costs to playing so many free on-line blitz games at whatever age. One might have been doing something else like sipping lemonade and swatting flies.
The internet affords easy access to a world of useful information good for oneself and for-others. Chess is one simple, intellectual recreation that can help keep one focused yet relaxed when not pursuing other intellectual ventures such as investigating trends in public budgeting globally, reading about advances in quantum theory or comparing the fighting styles of Povetkin, Joshua, Wilder and Fury. Chess is just another intellectual pursuit yet it’s a game and a very fun participatory one at that.
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