Myers-Briggs Types and Chess

Meyers-Briggs is a "scientific" replacement for astrology.

meyers-briggs and sdi are good baselines for human behavior, doc. if one knows them well, the predictive result usually manifests.

yes if science means something that can be explained.

I'm a ISFJ here and I know two people that play chess a lot. Although they never take the personality type test. I still know their personality types by cognitive functions. I think one is ESXP (Most likely T). Because I see him usually very good at chess. We played chess a lot and I win about 30% of it and he wins about 70% of it.

I also played chess with an INXJ (Most likely F) and I usually win more than him. I think It is about even.

No, the artificial temple of crap built on top of the original research is analogous with astrology.  The original research is just fine. 

This is extremely true. Jung (the initial "discoverer" of cognitive functions which led to MBTI) didn't even complete his work. Not to mention it was one man who was studying the concept and not a team approaching it scientifically. Yet Myers and Briggs took his work as the word of god and ran with it. So yes, a temple and religion.

Unfortunately its sheer popularity in the west has encouraged many people to consider it as a legitimate science or psychological profiling system. You'll even see it mentioned (albeit usually briefly) in university-level text.

MBTI is a "scientific" replacement for astrology and Socionics is a scientific approach to explaining what Myers and Briggs failed to actually do.

It's notable, however, that the Myers and Briggs attempt was going in the right direction even if they did so without doing enough research; his findings that there are eight cognitive functions was correct(ish) and has led to some interesting refinements of what he was trying to say.

I took the test about 9 years ago, and it "revealed" that my best way to approach a problem was not by group input & collaboration initially, but by coming up with a solution on my own and then subjecting it to criticism from outside sources.  It was "spot-on" and it has been extraordinarily useful to me in my management style. 

 I think typically less S's would play no offense to all S's but they tend to be less analytical and without intuition (which is exactly what the N stands for) and if you look at advice pro chess players they pretty much all say following your intuition is key. Also S's tend to be less smart and chess requires intellect to some degree.

Intuition is always better from people with better skill.

I'm an ISTP.

I'm INTJ like Dwight Eisenhower, Napoleon and Alexander the Great.  I will work you over on a chessboard and give you something to be depressed about

If you haven't already, take your Chess Personality Quiz at http://www.chesspersonality.com/ 

 Another in a list of ISTJ.

INFJ

Confirming all possible clichés, I am ESTP https://www.16personalities.com/estp-personality . 

LOL I'm the odd ENFJ in my club

this is a fun little thread.

I have done the test on https://www.16personalities.com multiple times (fun website, gives details of the different types, and gives percentages of the categories so you know how close you were in the catagories)

INFP, is the most consistent over various websites (i have a few times came up as INTP, although INFP i think correlates more with me)

Also on the chess personality website, i have done the test several times over a longer period of time, and came up as a technician.

forgive me if this is redundant. 

sdi is more accurate than myers-briggs. studies of human behavior are more accurate than studies of how people think. behavior is the thing. how do people react? it could be because of a disposition that certain red-green, blue-green, people have. 

some accept criticism. some don't. just one example.

that may be true, i just think the tests are fun  plus, some give websites some good general advice.