Do you like Chess, is Chess a game for mental exercise - benefits of chess

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I do love to play Chess even though I am not a good player. But I play it mostly with my relatives and friends and also like to develop my skills. It needs tactics, strategy, intelligence, game plan, alertness, finishing ability and much more that a brain can be used. It is an internationally accepted game. Some of the main benefits of chess game... 1. It teaches planning and foresight Mostly each move in this game is needed both planning and foresight 2. It helps prevent Alzheimer's Because the brain works like a muscle, it needs exercise like any bicep or quad to be healthy and ward off injury. Unused brain tissue leads to a loss of brain power. 3. It can raise your IQ Chess has always had an image problem. Study has shown that moving those knights and rooks around can in fact raise a person's intelligence quotient. 4. It exercises both sides of the brain Both sides of brains functions to more quickly respond to the chess moves. 5. It increases your creativity As the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for creativity, it should come as no surprise that activating the right side of your brain helps develop the creative side. As each move is could be new creative move of the players. 6. It improves your memory Chess players should remember how the opponent has operated in the past and recalling moves that have helped you win before. 7. It improves reading skills The studies also show that it helps in reading skills and concentration and power of focus a point also increasing. 8. It increases problem-solving skills In a chess match it is like one big puzzle that needs solving, and solving on the fly, because your opponent is constantly changing the parameters. 9. It improves concentration The players should be alert and each move is be well learnt without any distractions. 10. It grows dendrites Dendrites are the tree like branches that conduct signals from other neural cells into the neurons they are attached to. Think of them like antennas picking up signals from other brain cells. The more antennas you have and the bigger they are, the more signals you'll pick up. Learning a new skill like chess-playing causes dendrites to grow. May be there are even more of benefits from playing chess, I feel much of positive side is in Chess. Have great game.