{"id":165,"date":"2005-03-01T10:36:50","date_gmt":"2005-03-01T09:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.dk\/ludologist\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-03-01T10:36:50","modified_gmt":"2005-03-01T09:36:50","slug":"chess-is-a-wonderful-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/03\/01\/chess-is-a-wonderful-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess is a Wonderful Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The [Wall Street] Opinion Journal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opinionjournal.com\/la\/?id=110006356\">interviews Susan Polgar<\/a> &#8211; one of the two famous chess-playing Polgar sisters. <\/p>\n<p>She airs the idea that Chess is a tool for personal improvement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chess is a wonderful tool to increase concentration, self-control, patience, imagination, creativity, logical thinking and many more important and useful life skills<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s an idea that pops up now and then, that a game can improve you as a person. I would love to see somebody write a history of this, I would guess it can be traced, at the very least, to ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, whenever you spend years focusing on something specific, I think you always end up feeling that what you learned could be used in other contexts. Video game theory for me, certainly, but it&#8217;s just like literary theorists or film scholars for whom their medium of choice is a privileged space for all kinds of existential and philosophical thinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The [Wall Street] Opinion Journal interviews Susan Polgar &#8211; one of the two famous chess-playing Polgar sisters. She airs the idea that Chess is a tool for personal improvement: Chess is a wonderful tool to increase concentration, self-control, patience, imagination, creativity, logical thinking and many more important and useful life skills It&#8217;s an idea that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2005\/03\/01\/chess-is-a-wonderful-tool\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Chess is a Wonderful Tool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}