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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
Huh? I’m dumb and I admit it. Chess is for dumb people? What are you saying?
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You are dumb. I was saucy enough to have said Eddie Fisher where I meant Bobby Fischer and you didn’t slay me for it? Shame on you.
Chess is rules-based. Rigidly rules based. It’s thinking through loads of possible small outcomes individually or as they might come together in a bigger strategy.
But it’s not really as great an indicator of broader intelligence as people assume, as most decisions in life don’t involved such limited, fixed potential moves. If there aren’t established rules, or you include the option of bending or ignoring rules, chess thinking becomes ineffective.
You can see this at work in our politics. There were rules. Gingrich threw out the rules. But a lot of people are still attempting to follow the old rules, and they seem confused by the idea that their opponents are not working within that framework.
