In addition, I know of many “gave up crime and went straight” stories about chess players. I even met some personally, all of whom learned the game in prison. (Yet another long story.)

I believe the same is true of video games, and any and all endeavors that require one to focus intensively on self improvement. Making your mind and body do something over and over again seems to be a good thing.

YouTube hosts many free chess lessons, and here are more freebies &/or cheap ways to learn or play.

Chess Academy http://www.chesscademy.com/
Chess dot com http://www.chess.com/
USCF http://www.uschess.org/content/view/7849/384/
FIDE http://www.fide.com/

Not a MGTOW movie exactly, but worthy of note nonetheless:
Brooklyn Castle http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1800266/?ref_=tt_rec_tt

I do not agree with him on video games. I’ve seen brain studies that say video games can make the brain work better. Otherwise, I’m all in.