The Truth About Chess

People, particularly chess players themselves, saysome experts think, computers are gaining 20 -
the darnedest things about chess and about chess30 rating points per year, the moment will soon
players. Here are some of our favoritearrive when humans have no chance against the
misconceptions about the royal game. Some ofbest machines. It should not be overlooked that
these sayings are unquestionably off-target, somecomputers are always trained by teams of
of them are uneducated impression, and some ofhuman specialists who program them in
them are controversies that might or might notpsychological areas like opening repertoire.
be valid. 1 ) Chess is difficult to grasp. Chess mayRemoving this benefit would eliminate their
not be the easiest game to pick up, but it is farexcellence. 5 ) Chess is a sport. Here we run the
from the most prohibitive. You have to know theperil of upsetting the many meritorious chess
moves of the six pieces, where the object withorganizers who have spent years trying to prevail
the slightest significance, the Pawn, has the mostupon the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
complex moves. Then you have to memorize thethat chess should be included as an Olympic sport.
rules about attacking and defending the King,Lifting light pieces of wood or clicking rapidly on a
including castling. Then there are a few rules aboutcomputer monitor is not physically challenging
games where neither player wins. One side of thiswork. As any quantity of photos from foregone
myth is legitimate - - it is difficult, very difficult, tohigh level chess events will demonstrate, chess
learn to play chess well. One player in a hundredplayers don't always cut a lean, trim, muscular
achieves supremacy. 2 ) You have to be brainyprofile. 6 ) Chess isn't a sport. Here we try to
to play chess. There is some link between chessmake amends with those very same organizers
talent and general intelligence. Minimum smarts arewho nearly convinced the IOC that chess is a
required. Cats and dogs will never make out thesport. Chess has been included as a medal sport
basics; no one has tried giving lessons to dolphinsfor the 2006 Asian Games. A game between two
and chimpanzees. Chess does involve, after all,extraordinary chess masters is full of tension,
using numerous advanced compartments of thewhere superior nerves can make the difference
brain as skillfully as applicable. People from all walksbetween a winner and an also-ran. Grandmasters
of life have fun playing chess, several attaininghave been acknowledged to lose a lot of weight
mastery. Some very clever people delight induring the action of a month - long contest. 7 )
playing but never progress beyond novice. 3 )Women can't play chess as well as men. To date
Chess is for nerds. In fact, this isn't ait is unquestionable that women have not
misstatement, since chess is for everyone. It isperformed as well as men in chess events. There
for nerds, geeks, eggheads, and boffins, as usuallyare many possible reasons for this. One may be
as it is for anyone else. People who want to callthat male players are often expert at making
other people unpleasant names should better say,female players feel uncomfortable at chess
' chess is only for nerds ', but this is plainly untrue.events. The Polgar sisters have gone a long way
Even if it was on target, so what? Intelligent,to convince the chess world that women can play
awkward, quirky people have made morevery well. Perhaps one day we will discover that
contributions to the evolution of society than havewomen can even play better than men. No one
the rest. If they want to play chess, that ' s theirreally knows.
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