Asperger's and chess

[collectingrocks 924]

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?

[Primeape 3,708]

I don't understand how to play it

[Nesf 9,342]

I don't play chess either, but I think that some aspies are good at it.

[Catman2018 973]

I perfer checkers over chess. I'm not good at chess.

[aspiesw 1,628]

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

[RiRi 8,124]

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.

[Scott 1,360]

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.

[(deleted) 1,113]

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.

[collectingrocks 924]

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...

[Asgardian 4,632]

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