I recommend citing your sources. Citing sources will help your viewers dive deeper. Thanks! Great video!

There's a skill in chess that I find very interesting: when you calculate different responses of your opponent to your candidate moves and so on, all of them branching out. And you store a position in your memory WHILE you're using other part of your brain to keep on calculating from that. It was pretty cool when I realized I got a little better in that

man at first i thought it was an ai slop and ignored it ,, but after watching this i can say the research and care spend  making this video is outstanding , i appreciate this video , u deserve alot of views

It's not specific to chess, practically any mental skill does this. Including reading. The human brain was not naturally wired to read. Reading is a complete brand new skill, this is why people find reading annoying or unintuitive.  But the more you read the more it becomes second nature because it changes your brain as it forms new neural pathways.

I think programming is similar to chess when you start making serious big projects.

Some small missteps are not instantly punished,
but instead are magnified the further you go,
just like in chess.

OK, so that’s chess.  Now try 40 years of chronic stress and isolation for me!

That "THE ROOOOOK" reference 1:28

"Emotional control" Gotham chess gotta watch this

Chess was outlawed in the past due to the fact it makes people more conscious.

1:57 and when you blunder a back rank mate the emigdala activates 😂

Reader, 1650 at chess, trilingual: Spanish, English, French, advanced calisthenic. Ex music producer currently being video editor in motion graphics and I feel like a dumb all along. But by watching this video I felt like a genius hahaha 😂

The chess board at 0:22 has the pieces set incorrectly. It should be Queen on colour.

At 03:30, he picks up a pawn, but puts down a bishop; now he has 3 bishops.

I've been a chess player for over 7 years now , thanks for the compliment

Bro you cooked something beautiful there

As a chess player this is the only video in years that has motivated me to read.

This video explains how playing chess, an activity the human brain isn't naturally wired for, significantly rewires the brain (0:00). It forces the brain to build new neural networks by repurposing existing systems like vision, memory, attention, planning, and emotional control, binding them into a single, efficient network (0:51).

Key takeaways include:
• Whole-brain activity: Chess activates all four lobes of the cortex: the frontal lobe for planning, the parietal lobe for spatial awareness, the temporal lobe for memory, and the occipital lobe for visual processing (1:51).
• Brain adaptation: Research shows that areas responsible for visual memory and association take on more responsibility as someone learns chess, literally adapting to the game's demands (2:09).
• Comparison to other activities: Chess requires more simultaneous coordination across the brain than activities like reading (2:23).
• Cognitive benefits: The more a neural circuit is used, the stronger and faster it becomes, which is why repeated activities like chess can physically rewire the brain (3:04). This rewiring may help protect the brain from cognitive decline as we age (3:16).
• Other demanding activities: While chess is highly beneficial, other activities can also rewire the brain for cognitive sharpness, including:
• Multilingual fluency (4:17)
• High-level computer programming (4:30)
• Elite competitive sports (4:40)
• Advanced mathematics or theoretical science (4:49)
• Playing a musical instrument at an advanced level (6:37)
• Deep reading (7:01)
• The importance of challenge: The video concludes by emphasizing that if the brain is not regularly engaged in demanding cognitive activities, it is likely being underused. The brain grows from challenges, not from comfort (8:08).

Solving Rubik’s cubes and understanding cube theory reminded me of the cognitive demand as advanced mathematics. To place over a hundred of these pre memorized algorithms in my head. To understand how to manipulate pieces around the cube will flee over my head the first half. I can use basic commutators or conjugates. Some people can predict what will the 3rd layer have, or predict the next move using their intuitive understanding of how these concepts work. I would easily place it on the level of math. You’d be surprised by how complex it is to learn the ZB method, maintain a top spot while there is rapid competition, or even solve cubes(Or even cubes as large as 8x8x8-11x11x11),blindfolded. No one even knows the fewest possible moves of a 4x4x4 cube and above lol. It gets increasingly complex with the level of geometrically spatial awareness. I’m a few months in to learning math and it reminds me of the mental gymnastics I’d have to comprehend for solving Rubik’s cubes. Both are on par in my opinion in terms of difficulty.

5:00  i knew my favourite subject mathematics would be present in the list

When I first got good at chess, I realized that the process of getting better at chess is basically the process of getting better at anything. In your first games, you want to look ahead for the most threatening positions after certain move sequences so you prepare yourself in that moment. Secondly, once you’re done with the game (win or lose), you analyze it. And after you analyze it, you memorize the best moves in certain positions. And though you won’t be able to call upon the memorizations instantly, they linger in the back of your mind when your brain sees a certain pattern it recognizes. You can do this with literally anything in your life. Chess gets you better at memorization and analysis. Two of the most important skills in my opinion. You should teach kids to play chess young and encourage as much creativity as possible. Chess 960 or fisher random is good for making the players be more creative. But I still really enjoy regular chess. You’ll never actually beat theory chess because you can play computers that know 10,000x more than you can fathom thinking about and they’re also 10,000x better than you. Plus you’ll just never be on Magnus Carlsens level.