020. Chess not suitable for children under 8 years of age

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The baby has just grown up. It has just started seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, feeling. It has come to know about the difference between non living objects and living objects. What is eatable and what cannot be eaten. It has now only stopped wondering how some people can be so tall when it is so small.  It was happy with its affectionate mother and caring father for about 2 or 3 years. And then starts the hell. The hell of education. Maybe that is the reason why the new born babies cry. I have observed a child cry as if it has been put in hell when its mother left it for the first time in a play school. A mother is deep phenomenon. The child was under the influence of the caring body radiation of its mother. A teacher is just a full head. For the teacher, the child is not anything. The child feels that, misses its mother and cries. In a situation, where the child is in building and its parents, teacher, friends were talking on the road, .... the building caught fire….The mother will immediately rush inside in such a fearful manner that even the fire will feel pity for her and child, the father too will enter about 20 seconds late, the teacher and friends will not enter at all. They will quickly fill the buckets with water and call the fire station. Sooner or later, the child has to leave its parents and be in the atmosphere of teachers and friends. What a fall…From low frequency of feelings, the child reaches a harmful high frequency of mind.

The mind is actually a lower function when compared to feelings. At the most, it can give you satisfaction after an achievement and it cannot do anything more than that.  When the children want to chase the butterflies in a park, look at the flowers or white clouds, feel happy when a breeze of wind blows over their face, look at a puppy dog, take it and put it on their lap, feel happy that way, dip their hand in mud and slap it on the wall leaving their hand imprint in clay over wall, look at the red, orange and green lights in a traffic signal, watching keenly when the green light will glow and then shouting “Daddy, daddy, its green, go “. When the children should be doing and playing such things and being in their own child life, the beautiful life which God gives to every child for just few years and the joyful years which will not happen again in their whole lifetime. The idiot chess trainers and ambitious stupid parents at all costs want to spoil that childhood, keep a chess board and start the nonsense at such an age. If you have mercy, do not load the brain and mind of small children with chess or any other mind activity. If the load becomes too much and the brain gets damaged, the child will become incapable of doing anything worthwhile for the whole life.

As if the U-8 category is not enough, they have started U-7 and I think the next year they will start U-6. In ten years time, there might be Under-4 category. These people have no sense of what exactly they are doing to small children.

There are two types of problems: Existential problems and the problems created by the money makers. The play schools and the U-8 chess category tournaments are recent problems created by the money makers. All parents fall into it. Ever since Indian GM Anand qualified for the quarter finals of World Championship and played against Anatoly Karpov in the year 1991, lot of parents have tortured their children who did not complete even 8 years of age with hope of making them a World Champion. The Indian Chess would have trained atleast a million kids for over 24 years (since 1991) and they have not created a single equivalent Anand. They will never be able to produce one again if they proceed that way.

“Chess is one of the most” or it can even be said “Chess is THE most complex and difficult mind operation activity and it should not be forced on the small children’s delicate brain and mind.

Somebody should become a formidable World Chess Champion at the age of 60 and announce that he/she is not going to play human world championship matches thenafter and that the super computers are worth the challenge. The small children, everybody, will thank that person because he/she was responsible for the enjoying of their childhood. In that case, everybody will start chess at the right or mature age. It will be better that children aged 7 or 8 have 1 class (1 hour) full load per week. 4 or 5 classes in a month. Forcing Chess on children under 6 years of age will definitely be a sin in God’s court. You can ask the Rhinoceros which often says teaching chess to children 6 or under-6 years is a sin.

The mind is all and everything now and it needs to be trained but activities should be given or undertaken only at right age. Some video game machines  like “Sony PlayStation” and “X box” contain the display “ Not suitable for children under 8 years of age”. They care more for the children. They do not want to make money in that way and harm the children

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August 13, 2016
EXCEPTIONS
Recently, a parent asked me to train a 5-year old boy. I told that the kid is too young to learn chess. Let him enjoy childhood instead of worrying about pieces over chessboard. It seems that the boy was very much interested in chess and that he does not want to play simple games like ludo, snake and ladders etc. He wants to play chess only.

The age 5 reminded me of this person whom I listened since school days and so I searched in the web and was right to pinpoint a 5-year old genius. Sometimes, the brain pattern might be conductive or highly conductive for chess. It is like a small plant - very delicate. You handle it carefully or else it is gone. You do not pour water, then too it will be gone.
There are lot of children who by birth inherit certain skills.
Take a look at the image file which contains data about the legendary symphony music composer Mozart who started composing music at the age of 5 and performed before an European royal audience.

October 17. 2022.

There are exceptions one in a million. Do not think that your son/daughter is an exception and damage the brain of excess load. There was always one world chess champion and millions of  "failed" players