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Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess. (lemmy.sdf.org)
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Sure, playing chess needs intelligence, dedication, and good chess players are smarter than an average person. But it's waaaay exaggerated in movies. I'm a math researcher, and in any movie, my department will be full of chess geniuses. But in reality, only about 10% of them even play chess.

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[–] latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Honestly, I don't think the action's the problem, I enjoyed creating interlinked databases with tens of thousands of entries in Spreadsheets. I think it's strictly to do with the complexity itself, I need more. I like the concept of every piece having a specific move set, I'd just need more of them. And add more complexity to them, but at that point may as well just play grand scale combat games, like 40k.

Edit: plus, to be honest, this lack of complexity doesn't even let me properly enjoy a victory. Maybe it has some fetishistic tinges at this point, but a protracted victory is so much sweeter, make me feel like I pulled my brain through high intensity training for a couple of hours. Either that, or something which can start acting as a reflex, like backgammon.

[–] Acidbath@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I dont play a lot of chess and I'm bad at it but I recommend playing chess puzzles or timed chess. If it helps, just think of it as a mini skermish on one area of the "map".

While there is competitive chess, I think the advantage it has over most things is that many people know how to play and that most of the time its a casual background game. Like you aren't trying to win, you are trying to not lose.

When someone is playing at a house party, it's so much fun to make wierd faces after they played a move or so.