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If you stand your eyes like an aggressive line set for a game, the players’ sketch seems as if the chess pieces are moved around the board with some hidden hands. Some walk in straight lines, followed by a duplicate, some follow a bishop, and prevent opponents like one pedestrian.
It is an old, well -worn clutch in American football that the game is merely played in the field of chess, using its complex strategies to unlock the defense of an opponent or stop his crime What is done Although such clutchs are inevitably clarified between sports, it is parallel.
“Before the game begins, the pieces are broken, it is positioned on the chess board.” Says Tennessee Titans Cornerback Chadub Euzi. When there is a drama, it is now part of its implementation. It is chess to some extent, but once again, it becomes a football.
Ozi is part of a growing group of NFL players who are picking up chess as a way to open chess, improve their strategic thinking and provide them with a shop for their intense competition away from the field.
Even on the day of the Super Bowl in 2022, the Cincinnati Bengal Quarterback that Burro was already playing chess. Many players are bent, in fact, chess.com runs a tournament for current and former NFL players. This is the subject of the recent documentary of NFL films.
Now in his fourth year, the Bulletz Champs includes NFL players who have tried to win a boasting rights and a reward of 000 30,000, which was donated to a charity of their choice. Is
“When we pulled the curtain back, we realized that there were many NFL players playing at Chess.com that we knew,” Danny Renish, a chess.com chief chess officer, told CNN. Were. ”
The idea of ​​a chess tournament fought by NFL players was born through a friendship with Renash’s Larry Footzerlda, who is fond of former Arizona Cardinals widely recipients and chess.
“We were sitting in Tesla one night (Fitz Jerusalem),” says Renash. “We were pulling this thing together and he was actively texting and calling people.”
Renash explained that after “a lot of work”, which included NFL fellow players Amari Cooper and Ouzie, chess.com hosted its first tournament with the league in 2022. Instead, they used to hollow it on the field, instead of moving their pieces around the board. To avoid the most competitive world of professional sports, the players often, irrespective of the time, turn to other forms of competition.
Eight NFL players participated in last year’s Bultzchamps and Kansas City Chief Safety Justin Red claimed the honor of the best chess player in the league, who sent 2022 champion Owaisi on the title. –
More games outside the tournament. “Many people (in the Titans team) are interested and start playing, or they have played in the past and are trying to get back in it,” says Owaisi.
Ranch says every year, the tournament has become “only more competitive” as the quality of chess is improving.
And since the quality of chess has improved, some players have their footballing IQ. Ouzie tried at the time in which he spent only to recognize formations in the field for his better ability to study various positions in chess, and to assess changes within them.
He says, “Such small things now happen to my head at a fast.” “When I jumped my jump, when I left the cowards to go to the Bengal, matters were just happening and I was able to respond so quickly. But at the same time … I was better in chess. It was time
By taking advantage of these lessons from chess, the board game has been transformed into a successful industry, in which high performance coaches like Seth Macosky have used players to coach players, including the Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback Jillin Hortens. His efforts have been launched in the New York Times, Athletic and LA Times.
For Renash, the biggest mistake that people make in chess – that “they marry their thoughts … vs. capable of reacting to the reaction” – also applies to the NFL.
He says, “There is a real resemblance … which is not only asked about quarterbacks … but also safety or whatever react reacts and read what is being done in any play.” Say
Such comparisons also extend to basketball. Luka Doni ć is a famous chess opium, Victor Wembeniama played against several fans of a rain at Washington Square Park, New York, and Derek Rose says he plays chase every day during a Dreck concert. –
Ranch has said of this obsession that chess in professional athletes indicates that “chess is an unintended puzzle simultaneously, yet chess is an irreversible puzzle at every place, whether you find it or not.” “
“And there is something about the doubletomy of this relationship that is very, very, very difficult and challenging … You know that is a great move and can you find it? And still, you also know how to play chess at high levels too. Yes… is almost impossible.
