… Patience can take you very far in the game and in your life. Winning at chess is checkmate, but there a variety of ways to arrive there. A lot of people are already either inadvertently or deliberately playing chess with their situations and relationships. The threat is stronger than the execution. Do they use chess strategies to do this?
In life, winning is much more complicated. Probably they do, at least in a way. We need to make the most of each phase and also not get disheartened if some phase does not turn out good. It’s quite interesting to see how many chess people are high achievers in real life. *** 2. Life obviously cannot be lived with this much unceasing calculation, nor should we want to live it that way, but there are times when we must align our actions with a predetermined strategy, instead of bumbling through it. There is no single way to win at chess or at life.
Life also has the corresponding phases of student life, work life and retirement. Winning can have multiple meanings.

2. *** 1. We can make the next phase good. It aroused me to apply these teaching to my own life situations and, if not why not, to other people’s life circumstances too. Bringing chess skills into real life makes perfect sense. In chess, every move has a purpose.

A good opening play leads to better middle game positions and good middle game play can lead to a favourable endgame position. You can apply this principle in your life by delaying your gratification. Chess like life has infinite possibilities. To never move quickly is perhaps the most important skill you can learn in chess. You know you’re exercising patience when you care to utilize your time and not rush through it. As in real life, women are often the centers of attention with their dazzle and flash and drama, but in the end, it is individual male leadership that decides the outcome.

You can do this by focusing more on quality and less on time. I think others in this thread are just not getting what the OP is saying. The objective of chess and life is winning. Every phase of chess play and of life is important.

I would say that when Angela Eagle (at one time a keen chess player) recently challenged for the Labour Party leadership it was good … Continue reading "Using Chess Strategies in Real Life"