Link: Chessboxing could help train automatic emotion regulation

4 Post author: Sniffnoy 22 January 2011 11:40PM

EDIT: Argh, I really failed to read this closely. Rewriting...

Just saw this over at Not Exactly Rocket Science. Chessboxing (or similar games) could help train automatic emotion regulation.  Obviously this should generalize.  Has this - by which I mean finding things that can help train automatic emotion regulation - been done before? This doesn't seem to be anything new - and this is extrapolation, not experimental results - but it's a neat application.

Comments (11)

Comment author: bentarm 23 January 2011 02:23:32AM 5 points [-]

The title of the article is "Could chessboxing defuse aggression..?". The content appears to be: it's possible to train yourself to deal with stress better. Chessboxing is a thing that makes you deal with stress, so it should help you deal with stress better.

There is no actual evidence that chessboxing helps train automatic emotional regulation, just speculation that, according to the theories cited, it should.

Comment author: Sniffnoy 23 January 2011 05:43:34AM 0 points [-]

Oh, crap. Well I didn't read that closely enough. I'll go back and change that later.

Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 24 January 2011 03:17:42AM 2 points [-]

I really want to pioneer the sport of StarKwonDo: mixed StarCraft and Tae Kwon Do. Who is with me?

Comment author: arundelo 24 January 2011 06:37:55AM 1 point [-]

Underwater Bejeweled!

Comment author: Desrtopa 23 January 2011 11:58:41PM 2 points [-]

I can't help but have a dubious regard for any sport that requires practitioners to engage in intense cognitive function after being repeatedly punched in the head.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 24 January 2011 12:49:28AM *  1 point [-]

I can't help but have a dubious regard for any sport that requires practitioners to engage in intense cognitive function after being repeatedly punched in the head.

The quality of chess play does go down very fast as a match progresses. Generally, it starts off decently and by the end of matches people are dropping pieces all over, and sometimes even trying to make illegal moves.

Comment author: Dorikka 23 January 2011 05:28:03AM 2 points [-]

I confess that I stared confusedly at the page for a few seconds while I tried to determine the meaning of 'chessboxing' from AI-boxing. Then it clicked. :P

Comment author: NihilCredo 25 January 2011 08:24:28AM *  0 points [-]

You're better than me, then; I saw the title, thought "ugh, more AI [censored]", and moved on. Two days later (ie right now) I touched on chessboxing during a random train of thought, and I finally processed it correctly.

Comment author: nazgulnarsil 23 January 2011 06:52:07AM 1 point [-]

I'd prefer Go-boxing. sounds awesome though.

Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 23 January 2011 06:01:33PM 0 points [-]

I'd be interested in math-boxing, or math-sparring since I take Karate. Timed arithmetic tests share the relevant features of chess (speed, concentration, cognitive focus).

Comment author: khafra 23 January 2011 11:33:29PM 0 points [-]

My Systema/Silat training partners are pretty nerdy--one came with me to meet Michael Vassar when he visited Tampa. I'm not a chess or go buff, but I'll see if I can think of anything for us to try, if anyone has metrics which might be interesting to record and report.