[Adonnus]

Since you're all so super smart and logical and all that... however I've thought chess is actually an ENTJ game. Are you good at it?

 

[Grandmaster Yoda]

I like to defeat the computer player at checkers using the hint system that tells me exactly where to move my pieces.

 

[Felipe]

Since you're all so super smart and logical and all that... however I've thought chess is actually an ENTJ game. Are you good at it?

Bobby Fischer was an ENTJ. I'm bad playing quick game or timed, but if it's a slow game I'm not that awful.

 

[Madman]

Nope, I am not very good at chess, but then again I have only played chess like 5 or 6 times.

 

[thedoctorlies]

I'm above average but timed games are more difficult for me. If playing casual or online turn based with hours or days to move I'm quite good. Do you play Adonnus?

 

[shallnotbenamed]

Yeah, but it gets boring after a while. I think an INTJ would have more fun with it, especially considering the timers and whatnot.

 

[Mindbot]

I don't consider myself good at it but I think I can be given enough time and practice.

You are correct that it's more of an ENTJ game, but specifically a game for Ni users. INTJs tend to be naturally better at chess (Ni Dominant) but without practice they can of course be beaten by other types.

 

[Lonewaer]

I'll get beaten by anyone who has a more specific foresee ability. That's about every Ni user out there.

No, I wouldn't say I am good at chess, and I don't really like the game in the first place. Because at some point, one can get as logical as one wants, all the moves can be and have been memorized, meaning that whatever move you can logically come up with, have been thought out before, and may or may not have been countered. So you can be as good as you want in pure reasoning, you can be beaten by pure memory.

 

[Veraine]

That's interesting that you'd say that chess is an Ni game! I hadn't thought of it that way, but it makes sense. And I guess Ni + Te types do best.

I've wondered every now and then why I'm not better at chess, given that I'm supposed to be "logical"... that explanation makes sense.

I haven't played chess very much, but I participated in Chess Club in elementary school and I was mediocre at it.

 

[komm]

I never won a chess game in my life. Not even when I played against innanimate objects. I get bored too easily.

 

[OneMind]

I think I can be given enough time and practice.

This. I was kind of good when I was a kid compared to other kids, but I never had much interest in it. If I did I think I could be very good at it. I prefer turn-based strategies to RTS and chess is the original TBS.

 

[DoIHavetohaveaUserName]

Yah i'm good at chess ,i love endgames ,i was never interested in chess untill 10 th grade ( when my brother challenged me to play ) so i learnt it back then ,
there is so much calculation involved .
I love bobby fischer games , murphy ,Anand - Kasparov games , and Magnus s openings :happy:

 

[Stickman]

I never won a chess game in my life. Not even when I played against innanimate objects. I get bored too easily.

I think the reason you get bored too easily is that you play against innanimate objects.

 

[komm]

I think the reason you get bored too easily is that you play against innanimate objects.

Playing against humans is far more boring than playing against innanimate objects.

 

[Lonewaer]

[…]chess is the original TBS.

*smothers with a peanut*

What ? Go alone is more than twice as old as chess.

 

[Flamme et Citron]

The problem with chess is that the pieces can only move in one fixed way, there's a predetermined number of pieces, a predetermined battle ground. This is both very boring and unrealistic. In the real world if you have to make a strategic decision, there are about a million different approaches and each option has multiple possible consequences that can't be fully foreseen, especially when the human element is involved. Chess doesn't allow us to use the outside the box thinking we're good at. A chess champion would be garbage if he had to actually plan a real-life military battle. Suddenly all the simple rigid rules are gone and everything is a sea of a thousand variables.

 

[islandlight]

No. I don't have the patience.

 

[RubiksCubix]

I love strategy games, and I tend to be mediocre at them, at best.

 

[Flow Ozzy]

Nope, never tried learning it at all. Used to play a lot of checkers as a kid, and still pretty good at it.

 

[Ialti]

Decent enough without the clock.