Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing bad with playing chess, but it’s just a game and playing chess doesn’t give super cow powers.
Being active  does train our creativity, brains and muscles.  Questionable if boxing or playing chess, is the more active exertion.

There’s also nothing bad with inland water fishing.  Also called a sport, but a sport with being less active.

The rule is: “You snooze, you lose.” It’s not important what we like to do,  it’s important that we do something.

Listening to music A isn’t better, than listening to music B.  Doing X isn’t better than doing Y.  Where do all this claims come from?

Some people playing chess are creative others aren’t, it has less to do with playing chess.

-----Original Message-----
From: linux-audio-user-bounces@lists.linuxaudio.org on behalf of Alf Haakon Lund
Sent: Wed 2/20/2013 21:02
To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: Re: [LAU] The Psychology of Music

On 20. feb. 2013 12:14, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 09:12:13 +0100, david <gnome@hawaii.rr.com>
> wrote:
>> Ah, so IBM's chess-playing whiz computer is also an artist now?
>
> And it aways was called a "sport" :D. And often it's claimed that all
>  highly gifted people play chess :D.
>
> Perhaps done by people who like to play chess and who wish to be
> artists, wish to be sportsman and wish to be highly gifted ;).

Since I love playing chess I should probably feel insulted, but as
the description kinda suits me, well, who am I to complain?