Why do you like chess?

I just started to play chess. Don't care about it that much, just something to do. I cant hang with the Chess nerds that actually study this stuff. I'm just not that into it. I will give it some more time but most likely I will just stop playing and go back to math.

Chess is a type of entertainment which many people find interesting like me!

I like chess because it keeps me out of gang activity.

because horsey!
btw a cute little horsey game I made a few months ago (not counted as advertising right? I didn't ask anybody to join my team or smth):
https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/1132438894

I suck at every other aspect of life

When I play chess I am intensely focused in the present moment and not thinking about anything else.

Otherwise I have the tendency to worry about what may or may not happen in the future, or ruminating about what happened in the past.

So I like chess because it prevents my over active mind from quite literally making my life a misery.

@dania_azzahra said in #3:

Hello!

It is because sometimes chess can relieve my stress(even chess is more stress!)

Not me! If I am stressed after a bad day, playing chess only makes it worse. Think about it!

Chess keeps me from getting bored.

@SimonBirch said in #9:

I like pitting myself against the gods .

So you are not a god-fearing man after all. I'm proud of you. ;)

@jjjsmith said in #38:

So you are not a god-fearing man after all. I'm proud of you. ;)

I am a God fearing man but do not fear the gods xx,

@SimonBirch said in #39:

So you are not a god-fearing man after all. I'm proud of you. ;)

I am a God fearing man but not a gods fearing man xxx

right. that's why I used a 'g', not a 'G'.

:)