DECEMBER 21 ― Recently I ran an informal poll asking Malaysians if they noticed that more people were getting interested in playing chess as a result ofWhile a majority of the respondents said yes, someone made an interesting remark, “I’ve got nothing against chess but I would prefer that my kids be more involved in a real sport.”This person, like perhaps many, didn’t believe that chess ― involving people simply, uh, sitting down ― can be a sport.
And each opening has its permutations, variations and so on. God help you if you can’t remember more than three of four steps ahead . This is world war fought across a table. Remarkably enough, not unlike sprinters and runners, chess players also burn loads of calories. Neurologist Robert Sapolsky even noted that some grandmasters may burn as much as 6,000 calories in one day.against opponents are just a few elements which qualify chess as a sport, putting it firmly in the same realm as, say, boxing, volleyball and basketball.
Then there are the positional architects like Anatoly Karpov, or the mysterious “hyper-modern” wizards like Alexander Alekhine whose famous defence against White involved moving his own King’s knight over the board as a way of luring White into a superior position in the hope of launching a counter-attack.
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