How do you apply chess to life ?

How do you apply Chess to life ?

What do you mean? play when you have time.

Be always aware of your actions..........

chess can teach you to think like a genius, it is very good

How do you use elements of Chess in your everyday life ?

I think it's more the other way around. How you think in everyday life affects how you play. When confronted with a problem, I use my whole index of experience to solve that problem and my chess ethos has seldom been the answer - if at all. 

Do always  one step at the time,

push thelittle boys,

go for a ride with a friends bishop

and let my queen do the rest

Kasparov wrote a book, How life imitates chess =)

Good book.

I can see your point,  but I don't think it's to far off to say Chess carries facets of life that we practice on a regular bases.

Think before you act.

What will he/she/it do if I act this way? What are the consequences?

AND... Horsies are annoying.

 Here is something for everyday living ...''A Knight on the rim is dim''.

 Yes, certain apspects of life can be projected upon the game of chess. But I have often argued that anything can be said. In one forum I said this:

I'm a firm believer that anything can be made to seem like anything. Life and chess have been pulled together many times, and if you want it to work it will work.

 My pet sheepdog is like chess, it is black and white. It always positions itself well and I fall over it, because I calculated wrongly that I could get past. This is much like my chess skills, I've studied tactics but still sometimes calculate wrongly, also position players always get the better of me and trip me up.

 I've made all the above up, which is like chess never trust your opponents moves!

That's me I've finished this post, which is like chess, it has an endgame - like life, which has death, but then there are more games, just like reincarnation, which is like chess.................

 I could go on but everyones suffered enough :)

..and I've not seen anything yet to change this. There are things that can be learnt from chess, in the sense of patience, respect, general discipline, but I still don't think that it actually helps to make any decisions in everyday life. I just don't think it has that great an influence.

taking a page from maradonna, you could use chess as the centerpiece of your life, make your decisions based on the outcome of games, classify everyone as a knight, bishop, or lowly pawn.  but you could also do that with other games, and all sorts of other things.

chess has taught me above all else to think and predict wat will happen whenever you make an important decision

 But did you not do this anyway before chess? I assume that when you made important decisions you must have considered the consequences of those decisions. If you weren't aware of the consequences then how could you have know that it was an 'imortant' decision. You knew it was important because of the ramifications of the decision.

Oh, gosh, not again, chess players trying to be intellectual...

 Woah, woah, woah, sunshine. Which, where and when? If you're talking about me you've got in wrong. I'm arguing that chess is a game and nothing more. Which would be arguing against the intellectualisation of chess. Although I love the 'gosh' bit, makes you sound like Hugh Grant.

A co-worker of mine mentioned this book to me. I'm going to make a point to find it. A book that prompt me to ask my question is ''The  Tao of chess '', the author shares 200 principles of chess that he experienced and observed. There is a chapter on openings that begins with a quote ''Your only task of the opening is to get a playable middlegame''.The author makes an analogy from the quote writing ,''Over ambition is self-defeating. Get off to a good start each day, and take it from there. Build up your resources before attempting to cash in''.  The book is a nice reminder that gems of wisdom can be find in simple places.

If you don't see the connections between chess and life you are just missing the whole point in my opinion.

Chess is aiming at you, you are the center, you makes the move, you decide what to answer so be responsible of your action and also be aware of the short and long term consequences of your actions.

Learn to win in chess as in life but also be prepared to lose if you want to win again. Get better, practice, study, becomes a better player and a better human being. Respect your opponent, in chess and real life, Learn from your mistakes.

Use your brain and be logical (learn to think logical) both in chess and life if you want to succeede.

You cannot win in chess if you just rely on fanatism,stupidity or any god.

Learn that there are rules in chess as in life and do respect them.

If you are costantly aware of what you are doing you will discover more of yourself in the long run because you definitely are your actions, not just a face on a mirror.

The whole point in chess is definitely an educative one, it was not invented to makes you feel miserable because you are not Gary Kasparov. It was made to help you discover who are you.....to look at yourself.  If you are or pretend to be a GM good for you, but if you can learn and stretche your abilities beyond your limits and possibly go further both in chess and life you can apply that principle to everything.

I can go on endlessly on that topic, despite all the science we live in an age of still great irrationality around us, once again chess can be like the 2001 monolith on the famous kubrick movie, after so many centuries man can benefit a great deal from chess and still can learn a lot regardless if you are a GM or just an amateur.

I know from chess that one wrong move can lead to check mate. Same goes for life. Gotta make good moves in life or get mated by life (or death).