Would being a good chess player be a good "hook"?

melin720
Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:32:04 +0000

I’m not as serious in chess as I was last year anymore.

This game is hard as hell and it’s super time consuming. I can’t believe people don’t realize that this game carries a lot more weight on creativity and critical thinking skills and keeping composure, not flipping out when losing a tournament game, etc. etc. It teaches you everything that playing sports would about life, losing, not giving up, playing chess from 9 to 5 in tournaments and thinking until your brain IQ drops to ape level. I don’t play tournaments anymore because I don’t have time right now; they last three days (the ones I play in), Friday night, saturday, sunday. How many games? 5 only! Every game lasts from 2-4 hours usually and it kills your brain by sunday night. I can’t do this when I got so much freakin’ homework.

Chess taught me more about life and who I am than anything else I’ve ever done. I used to play to win (and I DID win) until I realized that this game is impossibly hard to get to the top with and requires tremendous amount of talent and time to get to grandmaster level.

Too bad colleges don’t realize this game is really, really underrated. Winning at chess is not even easy, especially at tournament levels. Doesn’t matter if I got a bunch of trohpies in my room. Doesn’t matter if I trashed over half of them. This game is IMPOSSIBLE and incredibly underrated and HARD AS HELL TO GET BETTER AT!