Chess and business

Hello,

With a few decades of experience in business and chess domains, I’m considering developing a course that highlights the similarities between the two fields and demonstrates how strategic thinking and analytics used in chess can be effectively applied to different business aspects.

Do you think a course like this would be interesting for chess players?

me personally, no

There is some cross over between chess and business, like analytics and strategic thinking. But much of business is personal communication skills. The ability to negotiate and compromise.

Most of chess doesn't have that gray area. Chess doesn't have that personal touch that a lot of businesses require. I'm not a poker player but I've heard poker has more in common with business than most other games.

I have 1600 elo

Yeah, business success in my opinion is more attributable to people skills than anything else. Not all, but mostly. Of course it's very important to be good at what u do but u have to be able to get people to WANT to do business with u. Chess ain't like that at all.

I agree 100%. I never really thought about it until this topic popped up, but I don't think there is much crossover between chess and business at all. Chess players are often the worst business people because they lack people skills. It seems like a lot of the time chess players have anti social tendencies.

In business, like you said, it's important to be able to convince other people that you have a good product or service, that what you are doing is going to benefit them in some way. I think in chess that's literally against the rules. You aren't allowed to talk to your opponents or try to use any people skills with them.

I suppose there could be exceptions though. I'm trying to think of a business where it's just a sole proprietorship with no customers or employees that require communication but also needs a lot of strategy or analysis to be successful.