Chess is a strategy board game sport that plays on an 8x8 checkered board. Most of the historians believe that Chess has come from Indian in the 7th century and they called it Chaturanga.
Here are some benefits of playing Chess:
Playing chess challenge your brain and improves neural communication within the brain, because chess is a game of brain and you can win in this game by thinking a plan to do, whether it is effective or not, but you use your brain to think good things to do is the first part of challenging your brain to think.
There is a scientific proof that games like chess can increase and improves the IQ level of a person who plays chess, because in the first part of the game a Grandmasters of chess usually thinks what it the weakness and strength of their known opponent by finding their recent games. And this strategy is called preparation and planning for their next thing to do and to identify how to counter the specialty of their opponents. How these things are connected to each other? Because it improves your brain to plan and think what is the best way to do to gain a better result by finding problems and solutions so that these things can add to your IQ if you applied this things to your own life.
Chess is a great workout for our brain to keeping it healthy and fit like our body, because it also prevents some mental health problems like Alzheimer's. This kind of benefit is proven by a specialist.
Playing chess expands your imagination, because playing chess activates your right side of your brain that is responsible for your creativity and complexity by thinking the possible outcomes of every move, in my own experience, most of the people called it "move tree" because they or we imagine the most possible outcome to the least possible. This kind of benefit is completely factual because imagining can help you to make an action to do it.
Playing chess improves our problem solving skills, because based on my own experience again, most of my opponents even my teammates in chess are also Math lovers or sometimes MTAP representatives because as what I said earlier, chess improve our brain especially right brain.
Playing chess can help us to stimulate deep concentration and calmness that helps us to relieve stress. Have you noticed that there is almost no incident about physicality because the game of chess, yes, chess is a mental sport but, there is no news about chess players that they punch or fight for each other in real life because being a chess player you can learn the feelings of being rejected, isolated, wasting winning chances and more things within the game so that we don't want to gain more problems about each other but instead we focus on our own.
And the other fact about chess is you can play and discuss between your game to your opponent by just moving the pieces and using arrows in the chess computer program without too much explanation because they have own understanding of what are the possibility of your move.
Chess is composed of art, calculation, planning, strategy, tactics, intuition, preparing, problem solving, reading (chess notation) and memorizing that will serve you a lesson that can help you to Improve your decision making process about your life.
It takes time to learn chess deeply, but if you understand the principles, techniques, openings and motifs I bet you will enjoy this game so much.
Chess is an equalizer of every person, because whether you are old or young, white or black, male and female or other gender, disabled or not, always remember that there is no exception when playing chess as much as you enjoy and learn from this game.
Chess is a real strategic game, fun to play and requires critical thinking. Nice write up