{"id":13313,"date":"2025-10-08T12:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T11:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/?p=13313"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:43:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T10:43:54","slug":"3-reasons-why-you-should-play-chess-instead-of-doing-your-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/3-reasons-why-you-should-play-chess-instead-of-doing-your-work\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Reasons Why You Should Play Chess Instead of Doing Your Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Academia rewards deep thinking, the long grind, and productivity (or the illusion of it). Chess also rewards all three, except you don&#8217;t have to write any papers or produce anything of value. Here are three reasons why you should play chess instead of doing your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>You\u2019re always at your computer but you&#8217;re not always productive <\/strong><br>Your open windows might already include tasks you&#8217;re not immediately addressing: inbox, half-written drafts, and crappy code that you&#8217;re putting off fixing. You may as well open up <a href=\"http:\/\/chess.com\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"chess.com\">chess.com <\/a>if that&#8217;s something you&#8217;ll actually use during these unproductive moments.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Chess is fun if you&#8217;re a nerd<\/strong><br>Chess is a pure expression of logic, structure, and competition, things you (secretly?) love if you&#8217;re an academic. It&#8217;s a non-obnoxious opportunity to outsmart strangers online. It\u2019s also the only time where losing can make you feel simultaneously humbled and intellectually superior.<br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>It makes your breaks more productive<\/strong><br>Assuming points 1 and 2, you&#8217;re a nerd in need need of a break. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2019-10-24-happy-workers-are-13-more-productive\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2019-10-24-happy-workers-are-13-more-productive\">Therefore, according to the Said business school<\/a>, you could be 13% more productive if you have fun and are happy at work. Maybe.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academia rewards deep thinking, the long grind, and productivity (or the illusion of it). Chess also rewards all three, except you don&#8217;t have to write any papers or produce anything of value. Here are three reasons why you should play chess instead of doing your work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":124,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[765],"class_list":["post-13313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":765,"user_id":124,"is_guest":0,"slug":"charlie","display_name":"Charlie Clark","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f33ac8d0f95636e781da4ce2989c92c069e5e30f5f6f633972f991e3ccb9371f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/124"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13355,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13313\/revisions\/13355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13313"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blopig.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}