Does Chess Thinking Invade the Rest of Your Life?
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I imagine you to be more of a pawn than a king, so I wouldn’t worry about the rook at the end of the file.
When I am walking by other people going in the opposite direction - I often think of how I would capture one going in the opposite direction "en passant!"
sometimes I go like, checkmate to some guy I'm playing at some club... is this normal!? 
if you are an aggressive player, that same aggression will cross over when you are driving. So ya, you may be more prone to road rage.
Luitpoldt wrote:
I notice that if I think of chess during part of the day, chess thinking infects the rest of the day as well, superimposing its now irrelevant conceptual structure on situations having nothing to do with chess. So, for example, in my work I have to lecture to university classes, and now, as soon as I find myself standing in front of the aisle between the two sections of seats in the class, I think, "Oh no! It's an open file, and I'm standing right at the end of it; what if my opponent moves his rook there!" So I step away.
Do things like this happen to other people?
I am decently sure this term is called "stage fright". Oh cross that "Fright to go up on a podium and lecture students" common symptoms for chess players: Moving away since they think a rook will be placed on the open file.
Okay now that I think of it why even worry about open files in the first place?
My young son and I are learning together, when we’ve been walking on checkered sidewalks he’ll start doing the diagonals, bumping into me saying “ah, I’m a bishop”. Pretty funny.
Checkered sidewalks !! Never seen one of them!? Whatever. You be like, "I'm moving my bishop to the sidewalk! random guy walking by be like, "I'm sorry sir you blundered." Then he pulls out a queen and hands it to you. "Checkmate!"
tomiki wrote:
if you are an aggressive player, that same aggression will cross over when you are driving. So ya, you may be more prone to road rage.
It’s the other way around: aggression from everyday life transfers to chess, not vice versa.
First and foremost one is a human being, then a chess player.
Feb 19, 2018
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#12
The whole point is to have it invade the rest of your thinking; ideally, it will become easier to checkmate life's problems that way...
How can fear be checkmated?
Sometimes, I find myself worrying that a fire hydrant is not enough protection for a traffic light.
Feb 20, 2018
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#15
I've been trying to get to the bathroom for ages but I can't stop moving in L-shapes.
Only when sacrifice and promotions are concerned.
If I see someone attractive I do sometimes think about pinning them down and forking them.
I notice that if I think of chess during part of the day, chess thinking infects the rest of the day as well, superimposing its now irrelevant conceptual structure on situations having nothing to do with chess. So, for example, in my work I have to lecture to university classes, and now, as soon as I find myself standing in front of the aisle between the two sections of seats in the class, I think, "Oh no! It's an open file, and I'm standing right at the end of it; what if my opponent moves his rook there!" So I step away.
Do things like this happen to other people?