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I hate chess (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by salim@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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i spent a 100 days building up my elo up to 600 (which is low), to end up loosing it all in like 3-4 days

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[–] MasterDeeLuke@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

From what I heard being good at chess is pretty much all about pattern recognition, as in recognizing similarities with moves from past games and gaining an intuition on what to do based on that. Experience gained through pure repetition and grind basically. If you are looking for a game based on actual grand strategic thinking there are probably way better games out there.

[–] Salah@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Aren’t all strategic games based on pattern recognition? I have difficulty thinking of alternative definitions for strategy. I thought all skills are learned through repetition and grind.

[–] zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 days ago

Mid-game in chess is where creative thinking and employing tactics to carry out a strategy comes into play, openings and end game are the rote recognition parts.

All games could be simplified down to pattern recognition at the high level so I don't think that's really a fair critique.