Che Guevara Quotes

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

Kids love games and chess is a game where you have to sit down and concentrate and it just helps in every way.

Chess demands total concentration

Thank you, darling, for learning to play chess. It is an absolute necessity for any well organized family. (in a letter to his wife)

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

There is nothing like chess to keep the brain smart, and give it a workout.

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Life is very much about making the best decisions you can. So I think chess is very valuable.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Chess makes man wiser and clear-sighted.

I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to play chess, because it helps them to develop their mental abilities. It also helps to consolidate a person's character, because as it happens both in life and in a chess game we have to make decisions constantly. In chess there is no luck and no excuses: everything is in your hands.

The mind must be trained, rather than the memory.

Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

For me, chess is a language, and if it's not my native tongue, it is one I learned via the immersion method at a young age.

Chess is the touchstone of intellect.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

Tennis doesn't encourage any kind of intellectual development.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

There are plenty of skills I've learned from playing video games. It's more interactive than watching TV, because there are problems to solve as you're using your brain.

The way you have to think in chess is good for everyday thinking, really, especially for brothers in the urban community who never take that second look, never take that second thought.

I learned to play chess at a young age, and I think that's where learning to plan things out and put things in position, that was the best thing for me.

Writing is sort of like chess for me. You have to think carefully before you move, thinking, planning.