Lelapinmechant
Spaceman
I've been reading them. I've been involved in community service for a long time, and I can tell you that everyone I've encountered from the Boys and Girls club on up to my local nursing homes, people of all ethnicities, up-bringings and IQs enjoy checkers and chess. It's a game. Sure, people who play it competitively are usually fairly intelligent, but people who play professional sports are pretty buff, and that doesn't make every tom dick and harry who likes rugby a muscle-man, now does it? And sure, LOAF is being a little harsh, but maybe you ought to read your own posts— this started off with you flaming anime(and one of my posts, actually, so you ought really to be atacking my integrity.) You are very insensitive to other people's interests, and in a chat community, I might think that should give people the right to be mad at you, IMO. Intelligence(in my country) is not measured by one's spatial ability, but rather by their accumulated knowledge. Chess, of course, is not a standardized test... It's a spatial mind game, like a jig-saw puzzle. Almost all of the autistic or down-syndrome kids I've helped out in community service(the ones with motor skills advanced enough to hold a chess piec) play excellent chess.Originally posted by Pedro
Allow me to restate my point so you can understand it:
PLAYING CHESS IS INDICATIVE OF ALREADY BEING SMART.
Either that or you didn't read my post