collectingrocks 917 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 For any person on the ASD spectrum who has difficulty inferring other people's thoughts and predicting their motives/moves, how does an Aspie get on at playing chess? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Primeape 3,708 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 I don't understand how to play it 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nesf 9,259 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 I don't play chess either, but I think that some aspies are good at it. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Catman2018 969 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 I perfer checkers over chess. I'm not good at chess. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
aspiesw 1,627 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 I love chess! I'd say I'm ok at it. I do sometimes struggle with thinking moves ahead, I guess I'm not that much of a deep thinker 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RiRi 8,034 Report post Posted June 21, 2015 I know how to play chess, but I've never been good at it. I wonder if it has to go with being good at math. I also know how to play checkers, but that one is even more complicated than chess. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Scott 1,360 Report post Posted June 22, 2015 I quite like playing chess, I don't get to play that often though annoyingly. I don't follow any set strategy, I just do what feels right in the moment; a better way to play I think, since you end up being unpredictable and hard to play against. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
(deleted) 1,113 Report post Posted June 22, 2015 I don't know about Asperger's, but a lot of intelligent people are into chess - my friend included, who is very intelligent and also has Asperger's. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
collectingrocks 917 Report post Posted June 22, 2015 I play chess but I'm not intelligent ! I know all the moves but am hopeless at predicting the opponent's moves in advance - even if the computer is the opponent... I used to be ace at chess as a young boy but a combination of being out of practice and a regression of me as a person means I'm so rubbish at it now I'm trying to look at ways to improve my "inferring" skills if that is at all possible... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Asgardian 4,614 Report post Posted November 20, 2015 (edited) I tried to play chess once and I found it really difficult. I would imagine many people on the spectrum are good at it, but not me I will stick to Monopoly Edited November 20, 2015 by Phil 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
