Is chess harmful for mental health. - Chess Forums (2024)

please help.

No...? Honestly i dont know, i dont think so. It just has a slight stigma surrounding it. There are a lot of things i do where im constantly asking myself if its harmful to my mental health. If it is is still better than abusing drugs or w.e. Most people will probably tell you its fine. Einstein had a quote about it being bad for you (paraphrasing) but he didnt look like the happiest person in most pictures though thats just what i perceive

Yes you are somehow right. But i asked this because I feel that i get angry if I loose 3-4 games continuously.

Getting angry isnt good, but you can just forget about it and move on

#1
No, chess is not harmful for mental health. Research shows it is even beneficial.
Chess Can Cause Pain
"Chess is not for the faint of heart" - Steinitz
#3
Do not lose 3-4 games. When you lose 1 game, stop playing and analyse your lost game first so as to channel the negative emotions of the loss towards a positive goal, improving.

yes. solved.

Chess is like medication, if taken in the right amounts it can be incredibly beneficial to your well-being, however to much of it can cause severe side effects such as the inability to sleep, wondering if you'll ever regain the rating you lost, or even sudden mood swings from losing a completely winning position.

Chess can be harmful to mental health if you get too emotional about it. I have an occasional problem with that. In fact, for several months, I kept getting angry, throwing childish tantrums, and my game just got worse. I had to stay away from the game for a while and come back with a calm mind.

NO. Unless you are obsessed with chess like Fischer, Tal, Morphy, If you are currently suffering from mental health, other factors caused it not chess.

Chess is a very frustrating game. You are continually confronted with your mistakes and shortcomings and there is nobody to blame except yourself.

Many times I have asked myself why do I bother to play this game? But I always come back for more.

although I prefer my nephews, nieces, uncles to see them playing chess seriously on their phones, than watching 🤫👉photographies, but I think there's no wrong with chess as a favorite pastime, to kill the time of boredom.

☝️🤨it only becomes dangerous, when the concepts or ideas of the chessgame, begun to change your attitude, your disposition (turns you into egocentric individual) and your social relations, when you start to create schemes, to take advantage of your fellowmen by deceit to acquire money or the desires of your heart through wickedness, illegal or unfair methods, because you simply applied the virtues of outwitting your chess opponent, then chess becomes a dangerous hobby for you.

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Thanks to all of you guys.

Yes that is why they go crazy. Look at IM Raymond Weinstein

I strongly suspect no. Even the opposite.

However, you'd be better served asking the question to mental health professionals not chess players.

Yep this game can send you around the twister. I am living proof

At least you would survive the twister. Not us mere mortals.

Chess would seem to bring out the entire range of emotions. How you handle it, as you handle other things in your life, can be good or bad. If anything, it's making us all Bi-Polar. (Or is it Bi-Polgar?) We go from the Heights of Ecstasy to the Trough of Despair.

No.

But an obsession with anything can be detrimental.

Also detrimental would be the failure to take an interest in something that motivated you to learn. Smart children who do not continue learning become stoopid adults. Chess motivates learning.

For those, however, who develop no interests outside of chess, the learning process is truncated. That was part of Fischer’s problem

yes

#28 I can hear the song in my head and see the guy wiping out on the ski jump.