classical conditioning & chess

It would be best if YOU came up with a correlation. Your "question" requires the viewer to relate a wiki-article to chess, while you do nothing.

If you make chess pieces out of dog food, dogs will salivate when you play chess?

I think in this case, pain would be the most useful. Everytime you make a blunder or misevaluate a position you should pray for Caissa to come down and savagely damage your body in accordance with how significant your mistake was. I can't imagine a better to play chess than to be playing in a state of fear, and not just fear of losing, but fear of losing life and limb.

Too much stress actually disables you. A minor-painful, yet bearable-electric shock should do the trick.

The problem is that while the correlation light bulb - dog food - saliva is easy, with chess it's more difficult, as misevaluating a position is not something we do on purpose.

@ trysts

Since you already got into the trouble of reading and replying to the post,why dont you just think about it a little instead of following the common way of raging/boring blogging?!

As Pavlov himself said:Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

 I can see a faint correlation between that and a game of chess.At the level of action-reaction,no matter the strategy one tries to develop, the defense mechanisms that occur in the way and sometimes happen spontanousley as a result of experience can really mislead someone away from his initial strategy into mere defensing.