Using Sudoku to improve your chess game

I have discovered that Sudoku puzzles make me better at chess. Has anyone else tried this?

Every day I do one sudoku of medium difficulty. I think it improves my chess, but who knows. I have seen GMs write that if you are in a slump, playing another type game, bridge, checkers, whatever, helps your brain get out of a thinking rut and "reset" for chess

My CAPTCHA was just a plain ole bishop & queen battery on the diagonal to h2

Its not nescessary that Sudoku helps in Chess. My granny is a master at sudoku but chess? Nah...

I never tried, sounds interesting :)

What works for me is to stop with strong mental activity. Going out for a walk, going on a soccer or basketball match, watching funny movie.... It refreshes mind in original way and gives new ideas about life - they can used in chess also.

@groovynwhippy
Not only Sudoku but play any game that involves brain to think. It will help one in improving and sharpening brain to work. And hence, there's a difference in playing level of a game after playing another game.

yeah
true point.

any alternance, and sleep (dreaming) will help.

I think 20 minutes is the optimal sustained attention (on average) period to work on something needing learning, and make the best out of it. schools for budgetary reasons (administrative), only manages to cut down to 50 minutes nowadays I think, before break. some compromise.

I may be out of date with the time scales... but synapses do saturate. and pruning/consolidation does require some kind of pause. Those would be principles.

Any deliberate hard thinking would follow the same ones i would think. anybody can update, confirm or infirm?

EDit: so alternating such task, provided not using exactly the same pathways, would perhaps allows such behind-the-scene "computation" or learning process to operate.

I think it should absolutely improve visualization skills.