Strategy for ASD and ADHD players

Any advice on Strategy building for ASD and ADHD players 

Claro 🗣️🗣️🗣️

I don’t know how neurodiversity affects brain capacity (holding a lot of info in your head)

Use mnemonics or metaphors: Make abstract concepts more memorable.

Try and keep the positions engaging for what you enjoy playing. If you cant focus due to complications keep the game simple and uncluttered of tactics. If you are only able to engage when it is super complicated, then play that way. There is no catch all as sometimes there is only one right move and it may be different then what you like.

I have ADHD, it doesnt effect chess as long as you can concentrate, something i can do.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/138894230620

this game is perfect game for an ADHD...straight forward 1/2

I just use my favorite playlist or orchestral (usually taylor) if I am having a bad day.

Adderal 🇬🇧

Hyperfocus in chess be like ....

And then the same day you lose to an 800 for no reason even tho ur 2000

I sent you a private message. I am audhdler, too. And struggle with time pressure.. because then, I’m acting stupid, because I’m stressed out 🤣

If learning openings is an issue, like it was for me (mainly because I have a dodgy short term memory) then an opening system like the Hippo that you can play both with white and black will help to simplify everything.

There are around 300 videos on these three Youtube channels teaching all the tips and tricks, but the Hippo is an opening you can play after a couple of hours of just looking at the basics.

The Chess Giant - Solomon Ruddell {He's like a 7ft Hippo Jedi}

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKx6s-gbAEVFRPrHu40cMsTa2IiCGwUba

Robert Drury (His Hippo insights are fascinating - He literally speaks all his thoughts as he plays)

https://www.youtube.com/@kniteplayer-chess

Eric Hansen's Hippo Speedrun (He goes from 800 to 2500 using nothing but the Hippo with white and black)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUjxDD7HNNTjPPDAZGCcpmpSmw6QFLxJU

There is also a Chessable course by Simon Williams based on the excellent book by Alessio De Santis - it covers absolutely everything!

The Chess Giant always refers to the Hippo as a 'Cheat Code' for chess because it makes openings so easy.

It certainly proves chess openings aren't always complicated.

@Hippo-Holmes This wouldn’t work for me: learning openings theoretically.

I have Asperger’s with ADHD. I have to do it by myself an learn from my mistakes, by doing it. I didn’t learn a single opening by studying it, so far. But use them anyway (without consciously knowing it), because I try to understand what could be the best next move and figure it out myself, in my pace. Of course I make a lot of „stupid“ mistakes, therefore I’m practicing with bots or play over the board with my son and mom. I will do theory also, but reverse: first learning by doing, then studying and understanding why I fail in a certain field(If I didn’t find it out by myself already). My son is NOW a quiet good player ( also AUDHDLer), he startet this account a few years ago as a young kid and learned it in the same way: doing by himself an failing. And after failing and being frustrated he learned theory from books and understood why he failed.

It seems like people with ASD AND ADHD have a quiet different approach in learning things. I‘ ve never learned „from bottom to top“. I jumped right into it, where my interest was, and started from there….

The Hippo is one of the least theoretical openings in chess, that's why I posted it here. Anybody can play it after watching a couple of videos. Then the 'learn by mistakes' can take over, I think we all learn that way really. But good on you sticking with chess, autistic people can be terrific chess players. Czech Grandmaster David Navara has Asperger's and talks about it. He has been as high as 2751 FIDE which is incredibly strong!