by throwaway81523 on 4/15/23, 7:05 PM
Someone on reddit says this is due to Andrew Tate's influence. I barely know who Andrew Tate is, but other commenters there seem to believe it too.
https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/12n0yxh/article_teac... :
> GoodNormals 35 points 4 hours ago
> I’m a high school dean and former teacher and chess coach.
> While new students playing chess is great, and I see it all the time at school, unfortunately it’s the result of Andrew Tate’s influence. I’ve asked many students lately while they started playing, and Tate is brought up almost every time.
by ralfd on 4/15/23, 2:51 PM
by costanzaDynasty on 4/15/23, 2:42 PM
I had a year in school where everyone became obsessed with chess. The teacher allowed kids to play chess who finished their work before everyone else was done. Haven’t thought about that in years.
by badrabbit on 4/15/23, 8:07 PM
I like chess but naturally I learn games by trial and error until I develop an intuition for it. You just can't play chess like that, you have to study strategies and moves. I play against computer sometimes but I have 0 time I can invest into learning the moves. I feel like for those of us not in the top 1% of intellectually capable people what makes or breaks your chess ability is the amount of time you put in studying strategies and effort you put into practicing but the former more than the latter.
by ryzvonusef on 4/15/23, 4:14 PM
by mgarfias on 4/16/23, 1:54 AM
My 9yro and 18yro regularly play. Including with each other on some online deal. Kinda cool how the internet lets them play together even when the 18yro is off at uni on the other side of the country.
by more_corn on 4/15/23, 3:35 PM
We played chess in high school. I learned a lot about life, other people, the consequences of one’s actions. Attempting to ascertain the intentions of another based on their actions…
I remember the lessons I learned playing chess in the coffee shop more vividly than I remember any of the lessons I learned in class.
by naveen99 on 4/16/23, 3:41 PM
Chess elo seems more useful to me than the sat or other iq tests. also more fun and scalable to the global population.
My favorite youtube channels for chess are chessbrah and gotham.
The rating climbs are the most fun.
by JSeymourATL on 4/15/23, 3:52 PM
by jononomo on 4/15/23, 9:18 PM
I think chess is an absolute waste of time. It is like spending your time doing long division for no reason. You learn nothing at all that is applicable to any domain outside of chess. You could spend your time reading a good book instead.
by bsder on 4/16/23, 12:58 AM
It's a fad. But it's also almost completely neutral to social media filters so can get pushed without backlash.
Something will be everywhere and then it will disappear. The chess folks should make use of the popularity while it lasts.
by Overtonwindow on 4/15/23, 4:16 PM
..flummoxed?? Strange choice of a word. I was delighted when my son took up, chess when he was seven years old. I think chess should be something that is taught in school, alongside music, art, and history.
by danso on 4/15/23, 3:42 PM
by massysett on 4/15/23, 2:45 PM
For every silver lining there’s a cloud.
by gjvc on 4/15/23, 1:57 PM
depressing to read the strap-line calling it a "fad", somewhat dismissively.