MATH vs CHESS

I like that chess and math go hand in hand. You may find that even in math there are indefinite abstractions and indefinite answers. :)

I love both chess and math and think they are very interesting concepts to study, though of course, math is more broad and useful.

Algebric notation of chess is Maths right?

Chess is not "solved", but certainly endgame tablebases are. When you say that "4) Mathematicians/ computer scientists... have already practically speaking.. "solved chess" using computers... (not to mention millions of other problems in other fields)... but chess players dedicated their lives to a "solved game" which a computer can do better. ",

you are making fun of yourself because-:

1)Chess is not solved. And solving it is IMPOSSIBLE with contemporary technology.

2)Surely Computers are better than us, but we can outplay them strategically. The odds of humans winning vs Computers are not astronomically low. 

For your sanity, health, happiness and most benefit to society.. chess should just be a hobby and math the main study. 

Why just Maths? Biology and Arts can be very interesting primary fields of study too!

I study maths and use chess as a hobby, the two do go hand in hand, which I enjoy very much. The mathematical thinking really provides a nice way to look at chess in a different light than just a game.

Mathematics is Queen of Science...to apply it in Chess... is an ART. 

And winning always in chess is not compulsory ! ....one's goal should be to learn and to take pleasure out of it. So  relax it's a just a game.

And there is big difference between hobby , intrest and fav. sport.

Wrong. Mathematics is the language of science. It's all about probability.

@ YeoeY ... I appreciate your thoughts...   

chess is a form of math

"For your sanity, health, happiness and most benefit to society.. chess should just be a hobby and math the main study. (just my opinion of course)"

Nobody's saying that chess is an alternative to mathematics, or that is can produce similar practical results. For most people (who know chess) it is just a hobby, and the number of people who use it in their career is very low compared to the number of people who use math in their career. I'm not sure what people you are trying to refute.

Really? Take a Numerical Methods class then say that.  To program a calculator you have to be pretty good at NM.  Also, you need quite a bit more than simple addition and multiplication if you're going to have a mathematics heavy job like engineering...

But you're missing the critical point--you need people to actually make those programs!  Calculators and programs like matlab, wolframalpha, etc aren't magic--people with a very good understanding of NM spend years making and perfecting them.  I use calculus almost everyday in my job doing calculations by hand for very detailed engineering analysis faster than I could do it on my computer.  Just because mathematics doesn't have a good foundation in your life doesn't mean it's useless...

I love both math and chess, but of course math is the more important of the two.  Without advanced math, our modern technological society would crumble within days.  The GPS system requires frequent corrections due to relativistic effects.  The international banking system relies critically on encryption.  Manufacturing, communication, and transportation are efficient due to mathematical optimization methods.  Trying do those on your handheld calculator PawnEater.

Exactly ^

Curious, what is your job? I'm told by many calculus is useless!

I'm taking Calculus III this semester :-)

Electrical engineer working in power systems (although I also have a bit of experience in controls and autonomous robotics).  Calculus 3 was my favorite, if you're anything like me you'll absolutely love triple integration :)

What are you going to school for?

Calculus is far from useless--I just used it the other day (although it wasn't the most complex thing in the world).  I was doing an arc flash analysis (basically, if electronic components blow up, how bad will the explosion be).  I used method provided in a paper (which was quite crude) to estimate the incident energy experienced by a worker caught in the blast.  It used a sphere instead of a flat surface (a worker's chest can be approximated to be flat) in order to be conservative.  I was curious how conservative it was so I used a simple integral to imagine that sphere expanding and calculated the energy felt on a flat surface by integrating the intersection of that sphere with the flat surface.

I'm in high school, but I'm planning to double major in mathematics and statistics with a possible minor in Computer Science, Psychology, or Management.

What are power systems? :)

I absolutely love integration, just started reading up on Calc III for when the semester starts.

ETA - wow, nice. Any idea how much such math might be used in actuarial or accounting fields?

Most my family are electrical engineers.

Cal 3 in high school? Wow, my high school only offered cal 1, very impressive! :D

Power systems are systems dealing with power lol.  In laymans terms, basically power utilities (the company that generates, transmits, and distributes power to your home, college, business, local factories, etc).

They would both be math heavy. Actuaries would be much more interested in statistics and accounting uses some very interesting mathematics. I took an accounting class and it was full of tables and whatnot to constantly change money values from past to present to future to reoccuring charges through time.  Accounting was interesting but not my cup of tea--fairly easy class IMO.