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Opportunity cost.

What about Go, or Checkers, or Call of Duty, or...?

That's the issue. Yes sitting down and concentrating on difficult tasks for long periods of time is good exercise. So is jogging, which isn't sitting down. Or rowing. Or lifting weights. Or...

Chess probably has much less benefits than learning a musical instrument, for example.



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