Personality type and chess; lets see!

Hi everyone,

I'd like to conduct an informal study on personality types of chess players, their playing strength, and how they view the game and their play. For those interested in participating please copy and fill out the fields below and submit them to this thread. Here is a link to a free personality test to answer the first question.

1. What is your personality type?

1A.

2. How long have you played chess?

2A.

3. What is your over the board rating (national/FIDE) and/or Chess.com rating?

3A.

4. What most closely applies to you of the following (choose what most closely applies, can be more than one):

A) Prefers strategic, positional chess, favors solid, sound openings and doesn't shy from closed positions

B) Prefers tactical, open positions, favors gambits and aggressive openings

C) Well versed in opening theory, looks for opening novelties in studied openings

D) Relies on own creative, imaginative vision in planning

E) Relies on principles and methodical planning

F) Learns best from playing, trial and error

G) Learns best from reading books, researching opening variations, studying masters games and ideas

H) Hates to lose and may take it as a personal failure

I) Doesn't like to lose but knows you can't win them all

J) Losing is part of learning and hey, its just a game!

4A.

Below is an example:

1. What is your personality type?

1A. ISFP

2. How long have you played chess?

2A. 20 years

3. What is your over the board rating (national/FIDE) and/or Chess.com rating(specify bullet/blitz/standard/Online)?

3A. 1500 USCF, 1738 Online at Chess.com

4. What most closely applies to you of the following (choose what most closely applies, can be more than one):

A) Prefers strategic, positional chess, favors solid, sound openings and doesn't shy from closed positions

B) Prefers tactical, open positions, favors gambits and aggressive openings

C) Well versed in opening theory, looks for opening novelties in studied openings

D) Relies on own creative, imaginative vision in planning

E) Relies on principles and methodical planning

F) Learns best from playing, trial and error

G) Learns best from reading books, researching opening variations, studying masters games and ideas

H) Hates to lose and may take it as a personal failure

I) Doesn't like to lose but knows you can't win them all

J) Losing is part of learning and hey, its just a game!

4A. B, D, F, I

Look forward to the responses. Thanks! :)

I'm conducting an informal study of people conducting informal studies.  My questionaire is simple: Do you conduct informal studies?  How often?  Why do you do it?

Would like to inform you (informally) your study is oververbose and incomprehensible which will result in slow take-up rate and few replies.

netzach knows what he is talking about lol

i read about half of it then gave up 

I'm not scared of reading, but where is the link?

I wanted to be a good sport and participate with something less flippant, but I was overwhelmed by the length and complexity and all that and decided flippant was best.

According to your test I'm an INTJ. That's just absolutely awesome!

Should be able to click on the word link (which should be pale blue) and it'll take you to the page. If it doesn't let me know (it did for me).

To the others who have posted-

 Its 4 questions and taking a five minute test. While the formatting might be abit cluttered I'm sure people can read the questions and answer them. Copying and pasting the questions makes it pretty quick, my example post took less than a minute (excluding taking the test). Thought it'd be fun and possibly insightful. :)

Oh. It's black&white on my screen. I'll get back with you

Yes I suspect most here will be NT's but it'll be fun to see what personality type is dominate. :)

Acerbic I was for a reason KE.

Be honest. Put yourself in someone else's shoes and try ploughing through what you have written/posted?

Constructive critiscism hopefully.

Sorry, too many of those questions I can't answer with a yes or no, and many of the questions I have questions about. So I can't complete the personality test

@netzach If you think it is then just don't worry about this thread. Its ok no hard feelings. 

Agreed

Thanks for checking into it. :)

np KE.

Good luck with it.

1A. INTJ

2A.  Four and a half years

3A. Was 108 ECF before leaving the UK and am 1756 currently in Online Chess

4A. A, C, E, G, I

Interesting post. Worth a few more responses 

1. What is your personality type?

1A. INTJ

2. How long have you played chess?

2A. 2 years

3. What is your over the board rating (national/FIDE) and/or Chess.com rating(specify bullet/blitz/standard/Online)?

3A. 1633 Online at Chess.com

4. What most closely applies to you of the following (choose what most closely applies, can be more than one):

A) Prefers strategic, positional chess, favors solid, sound openings and doesn't shy from closed positions

E) Relies on principles and methodical planning

Mix of F and G

I) Doesn't like to lose but knows you can't win them all

I'm not a great player so I haven't developed my preferences that much but I hope this helps. Will be interested in the results.

 Answered in your qoute. hope i helped , And GL with your study ;)

1. What is your personality type?

ISTJ

2. How long have you played chess?

27 Years

3. What is your over the board rating (national/FIDE) and/or Chess.com rating?

1970 FIDE - 2130 Online Chess.com

4. What most closely applies to you of the following (choose what most closely applies, can be more than one):

A) Prefers strategic, positional chess, favors solid, sound openings and doesn't shy from closed positions

D) Relies on own creative, imaginative vision in planning

G) Learns best from reading books, researching opening variations, studying masters games and ideas

I) Doesn't like to lose but knows you can't win them all