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Is Chess #1 Brain Tonic? Here's What the Experts Say

It’s a two-player mind stimulating game that makes the players use both the hemispheres of their brains. The game was originally strategized in the 7th century but was further modernized in the 19th century. The game engages both the players by making them think tactfully and strategize against their opponent in order to save their own king. It begins with each player having 16 pieces each and ends once a player’s king has been checkmated. The game has many alterations in different regions of the world but the objective doesn’t change. The game brings people together in support of each player on many levels that on a large-scale forge into tournaments. The first tournament to be ever held was played for about 50 minutes and the next tournament continued for about 3 hours. That leaves chess tournaments these days anywhere between 10 minutes to 6 hours, depending on the players.

Chess is even suggested to tune the mind to think tactically. So many students appearing for entrance exams are told months in advance to play chess so that they are "Aptitude Ready”. This means that once a student is habituated to playing chess, he/she begins to think in an analytic manner which is highly required during entrance exams. Chess can also act as a relaxing activity for people who are looking to stretch their brain muscles after a tiring day of work. Parents often encourage kids to take up chess as a hobby so that their thinking is tuned analytically from an adolescent age. Many people also associate chess to be boring, but that's not always the case. Chess has the ability to make the players think differently in every match as once your strategy has been identified you will have to come up with a new one. Hence, chess can even get a person’s creative juices flowing in a manner they are not use to. In International chess tournaments the players are awarded several titles, the highest of them being“Grand master” that is awarded by the FIDE, which is the game's international governing body. Now as times have changed from hard copies to soft copies, the old board game also finds itself changing into a variety of online/offline games that can be downloaded as apps or simply played against opponents sitting on the other side of the globe on a website.

Chess can help an individual in many ways and once a person is hooked onto the game, they can even make a career out of the board game and start climbing their way to become a Grand master. All in all, the game is suitable for all types of people of all the different age groups and is now accessible to all on their very smartphones.

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