Comment on Unlike in movies, most smart people aren't good in chess.
GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today 1 week agoBeing able to parse a specific ruleset, or doing a specific kind of math fast
Oh man, I would love competitive tabletop games, where the goal isn’t to min/max your build, but to min/max your build after being given a brand new system and 45 minutes to read the rules.
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 1 week ago
Lol, I can relate. My friends are always surprised how good I am at a game when I’m playing for the first time (mostly card games, and board games). But I quickly get bored, so never get to be actually good at any of those.