Can we change the national game to Chess?

[basakanindo]

no.... many people dont play it...cricket should be our sport

[orcabhinav]

It should be made national sport ... quite a brainyy game..

[paagalbanda]

No... It is not such a great idea... Firstly we should discuss if we can change national game to cricket. presently, we have hockey as our national game.
National game means people of the country connect with it, follow it and have passion for it. People of the country means the majority of the people.
Can you see this in chess?
Not at all.

Hence cricket should be the national game. Chess is far far away (even vishy lives far far away in europe)

[bdatta20042003]

We should change our national games to change...............Russy's national game.

[gaivn]

I suppose that there are many sports/games that we Indians are good in. Hence this will not be a good idea according to me. Most Indians have an interset in Cricked and not Chess as chess is a game ment for the richer class is society and India is still in the development stage. We have More people that live on or below the poverty line in India. Hence i would say No to this.

[friend4all]

i dont think the idea of changing the national game to chess would benefit.It may help to improve the intelligence of people but i think it wont benefit the economy of the country

[mohammed yunus]

no, instead we can train the hockey players more that is the only thing we are not doing , other nations show more interest in training than us.we need to get trained a lot in every game but more in hockey as its a national game.every thing ends in politics in india it is the root cause for every thing.china is training their 5yr children to win in olympics ,havin more population than us are doing then why not we.the more training we give the more cups we ll win .just winning a chess game does not mean we need to change the national game.give more importance to chess thats it.

[eminem_19892006]

na dude its only anand who went international rest of them need time

[pahuja.chirag]

it is not possible, because chess in our country is not as much popular. and the game which is not much popular cannot be made the national game.

[ice]

thre r lot of great chess plYERS IN INDIA..
BUT thres only 1 whos doinating it ..
and even chess is also not in the olympics ,so we cant get a Gold ..AAND thre shld be lot more plyers to dominate the game ..but hockey for sure has to be removed frm status of our National game ...