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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SHARK" data-source="post: 276301" data-attributes="member: 1131">Greetings!Excellent CRG! Very well put! I would add that an excellent game to learn strategy is "The Game of Kings"--Chess.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Chess teaches you to analyse your own strengths and weaknesses, as well as the enemy's. To learn how to play Chess is rather simple. To learn how to play well, is significantly more complex, and can change dramatically based on your individual opponent. To succeed in Chess, besides these issues, it requires an individual to be able to "see" several moves ahead. This includes seeing your own moves, and that of the enemy's. The more moves that you can visualise ahead, as you make each move, and respond to the opponent's, the stronger player you will be, and more likely to win. Strategy requires that you be able to see the "Big Picture" and see how all of the little details come together to form a whole plan, or winning strategy. In Chess, there is also the psychological warfare element, that of learning about your opponent, and the added dimension of the facial gesture, the whispered comment, the deceptive whispered comment, the tapping of the fingers, clenched hands, and so on. You would be surprised at how many of these psychological devices, as well as spoken commentary, can assist your efforts in a Chess game!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Semper Fidelis,SHARK</blockquote>

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