Is this a good thing?

[Linda] Williams' son [Franklin] plays [chess] every day, whether online, against someone or alone.

"If you ask him, 'Do you want to goof-off and have a friend over to spend the night and play video games, or do you want to get up at 6 a.m. on Saturday to drive to Nashville to play a couple of game of chess?', he'll pick the chess," she said.

From "All the right moves: Interest in chess on the rise" at The (Murfreesboro, TN) Daily News Journal.