Personal Growth
4 Valuable Life Lessons From Chess
The popularity of chess skyrocket in recent times. It’s mainly because of the ongoing pandemic where all games benefit, as we can say from statistics of a leading streaming platform — Twitch. Theverg summarizes:
Twitch had a good 2020. Events were virtual; people stayed inside. The live-streaming site managed to clock 17 billion hours watched last year, which is a full 83 percent higher than 2019’s 9 billion, according to the latest report from StreamElements and Arsenal.gg.
Chess is one of the most viewed categories on the platform in the period.
The next reason is the huge success of The Queen’s Gambit (miniseries):
Netflix released The Queen’s Gambit on October 23, 2020. After four weeks, it had become Netflix’s most-watched scripted miniseries.
These are the two main reasons why the 1200 years old game gained our attention recently. But, what could we learn from chess?
We don’t want to know
When the two chess grandmasters realize that the rook will checkmate the king in the next 11 moves, they punch the timer, smile, and start another game. They don’t want to play…
