From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
Date: 15 nov 1999
Subject: Re: How is the brain affected

Hans Kaplan wrote:
>
> But to play the same game, with the same simple rules too much, will
> soon reach the stimul.limit,
> the braincells and then the personality can even get a bit destroyed
> from too much stereotype
> work. Here comes the Shogi in as a "salvation", I think that the
> chessplayer fastly become stronger
> after some Shogigames ! The Shogigame gives the brain a real push in the
> right direction.
> Its the new, needed type of stimulance that so fast give a result.
> I also think that things work reverse, if you play much Shogi, try some
> chessgames sometimes.

Hans Kaplan is very right. But instead of playing Italian chess why
don't you try the
shogi variants (Chu or Tenjiku for example) these are very different
from Shogi and can get you away from the stereotype work.

Rikard Nordgren