Are ASDers better at chess than NTs?

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I never get over how many different boards there are. Countless themes, styles, and all sorts of variations. Yet always a high price for the good ones

If I count my wins and loses, it's mostly loses. And I never met a single aspie in my entire life yet. Much less played with any.

I know how every pieces moves, I played around with it when I was younger with my neighbors, classmates and cousins... But overall, I'm not that good it mostly against my classmates, but I mostly win against my neighbors and cousins.
So I don't know. But I'm even so, I'm not confident.

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I am a highly analytical thinker but am absolutely horrible at Chess. I usually get knocked out within 6 moves.

I find the game to be demoralizing. I'm a little better at go than chess and enjoy it more.

Computers are better than all the human chess players. I don't like to play people and playing the computer is very frustrating since the only way to beat it is to manually "make it stupid." I prefer games with a little bit of mystery.

Edit: I think "go" is a more aspie-friendly game since it relies more heavily on visual pattern-recognition and less so on tricks and tactics. It's not always the most clever player who wins. Often it's the most philosophical player who wins. The best players are still very very good at reading ahead. Whether you are a master at chess or go or any game of the like, a good working memory is required. And this doesn't always go hand in hand with autism.

Not too bad of a description and I have seen some of the game before just never played it. Very interesting game from what I know with a different tactical application than chess

Why would a person with AS be better at chess?

Unless it was their special interest I guess.

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I am pretty terrible at chess. My son has been beating me since he was 4yrs old.

I am a highly analytical person, though, so I think it is my working memory that fails me. Trying to keep track of all the possible moves and counter moves several steps ahead is pretty difficult!

I'm not bad considering that I've only played a few times.

There's a short section on the topic here https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IaF ... &q&f=false

Edit: search for chess when you load the page, since this link takes you to the bibliography.

I don't know why, but I just love teaching people how to play. HelckI enjoy teaching anyone anything I know well enough that's worth passing on, but it's especially fun with chess for whatever reason. As long as you ain't afraid of Losing chess us one of my favorite conversation tools to have. All you need is a set n some pleasant company

I love Chess, but I'm terrible at it.

A lot of chess players are on the spectrum, and probably all the very good ones (e.g. Bobby Fisher).

Chess is much more interesting for some ASDler than for all NTs: clear rules, few and easy communication, object-orientation instead of people-orientation, hyper-focus. If than the complexities of thinking are there, which probably requires already a certain obsessive drive (c. The Chess Story by Stefan Zweig), plus the special-interest for chess itself, they are good at it.

NTs simply lack motivation and the hyper-focus to engage in chess beyond child-age, their people-orientation is too strong, and as a social game chess is definitely not interesting enough and too challenging.

Games like chess and logic in general is also interesting for Aspergers as a compensation for a lack of cognitive empathy, because the exertion of cognitive empathy bears clear parallels to the mode of thinking required by a game like chess. Or the other way around: why should any true NT be interested in chess, physical theory or the writings of Lewis Carroll, if his continuous object of study is already something as intriguing a challenge as is human behavior???