Myers-Briggs Types and Chess

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We are NOT breaking any land-speed-records here.   

INTJ here - I saw an article in Chess Life recently about Players vs Thinkers which said thinkers play 200 elo pts. lower than their chess ability.  Explains why my OTB at 2 hour time controls when I have time to think translates into 200-300 higher elo playing for me.  As an INTJ, I'm worried about figuring out a master plan when at my current level developing "a" plan is difficult so I'd probably win a little more if I worried about just playing the position on the board rather than thinking about some general abstract principals and plans that don't apply to the current position

INFJ Here

I was hoping it would die a natural death, but every now and then someone finds it and feels compelled to post the results of some cockamamie personality quiz as if it means anything.  These "scientific" tests are the modern version of astrology.

I am an Intj who has been playing chess for about a year 

Seems to be dominated by thinking types. The website calls me an INFP but I suspect from self-observation and analysis that I might lean better towards INTP. Edit: retyped as INFJ. 

ENTP

i am an INFP and a newby in chess. i think we tend to be very shy but over the board we can be monsters. most people would think i am a thinking type cause i have a high iq-score but actually i am a dreamer not a thinker.

INFJ here

INTJ

Enfp... Which is why I can't pay attention long enough :)

You can just google it and get a link to some site where they'll have you answer a bunch of inane questions so you can feed this nonsense thread.

As I've said before, it's astrology for the scientific age.

Carl Jung's "Psychological Types" (1971) Princeton University Press, is an excellent book, but rather heavy going.

Most English speaking countries have been caught up (for the past @100+ years) in differentiating the Natural Sciences versus the Social Sciences.  With the former always winning out.  That's why (essentially) all social science get tarred as the kissing cousins of "astrology," in the English speaking world, where physics reigns supreme, (unfortunately).

Some academics think otherwise.  Here's a link to a short, but persuasive. narrative on same --

https://www.deirdremccloskey.com/editorials/europeans.php

INTJ here. I played chess when I was in elementary and high-school,never did practice in my college years. I only discovered chess.com 2019.

ENFP... No attention span :)

Maybe just a fingerfehler?

Sounds kinky.