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Hah, what a great article.

I play chess (poorly for the time spent on it) and I'm also a reasonably successful founder of a couple software companies. I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues. But the board doesn't lie and if you don't think thoroughly you will get punished.

I have the capacity for it, I can think thoroughly in puzzles and perform much better there than my on board play but I just struggle so much with the discipline during regular games to falsify my moves. So much so that I've mostly given up on trying to improve despite really loving the game, it just grates on me. I know I could be better but I lack the discipline and I guess I just don't want to exercise that discipline in a game.

Anyways, great article.




> I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues. But the board doesn't lie and if you don't think thoroughly you will get punished.

I believe strong players do act intuitively when playing chess (especially fast chess), it's just that they've developed their intuition through lots of practice and thorough thinking in the past. For some reason our intuition about life seems to be more developed, or perhaps the game of life is incredibly complex and most people are roughly at the same skill level.


> I find my struggle with chess is that I want to act intuitively, something that has served me well all my life in other avenues.

Same. Truth be told, I don't want to have to explicitly think at all. I want my brain to recognize the situation and steer me towards victory through entirely unconscious processes.




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