I used to play chess with my dad when I was little. It is good for teaching you to think ahead. I was really good at that for a while. My dad died and I pretty much stopped playing it and I noticed over the last few decades that my ability to think things many steps ahead died too.
i’m really sorry to hear about your dad, you don’t have to play chess again to recover your ability to plan ahead i’m sure there’s a lot of other games or activities
For some reason, I don’t remember having that problem with chess even though I can in RL. It’s been a while since I played it much, but from what I remember, I didn’t have a deep understanding of the game; I mainly was just careful in thinking steps through and that made me good enough that I could often hold my own (though I’m sure I’d get destroyed if I played against pros). For other players who are at a casual level of skill, I think that’s all you really need is caution. Lot of times in chess, people will make blunders because they are too hasty; and if they lose a valuable piece as a result, it can spiral if the other player plays cautious and plodding, gradually making use of the advantage to whittle down to where the blundered player’s best bet is to force a stalemate.
Interestingly, chess can be similar to programming logic in a way and I ended up into coding as one of my areas of interest in life. “If this, then this” kind of thinking; pieces with unique operations (movements) they can each do; it even has a piece that can change state (the special pawn turning into a queen situation).
I used to play chess with my dad when I was little. It is good for teaching you to think ahead. I was really good at that for a while. My dad died and I pretty much stopped playing it and I noticed over the last few decades that my ability to think things many steps ahead died too.
i’m really sorry to hear about your dad, you don’t have to play chess again to recover your ability to plan ahead i’m sure there’s a lot of other games or activities
thanks, it was a long long time ago now, but i just wanted to note that it really does help you develop that ability to think ahead
I think that’s why I could never get into chess. I get paralyzed overthinking ahead.
For some reason, I don’t remember having that problem with chess even though I can in RL. It’s been a while since I played it much, but from what I remember, I didn’t have a deep understanding of the game; I mainly was just careful in thinking steps through and that made me good enough that I could often hold my own (though I’m sure I’d get destroyed if I played against pros). For other players who are at a casual level of skill, I think that’s all you really need is caution. Lot of times in chess, people will make blunders because they are too hasty; and if they lose a valuable piece as a result, it can spiral if the other player plays cautious and plodding, gradually making use of the advantage to whittle down to where the blundered player’s best bet is to force a stalemate.
Interestingly, chess can be similar to programming logic in a way and I ended up into coding as one of my areas of interest in life. “If this, then this” kind of thinking; pieces with unique operations (movements) they can each do; it even has a piece that can change state (the special pawn turning into a queen situation).