Attention, ability and strategy games?

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I'm okay at playing games that require strategy like chess or chess-like games or card-games and what have you.....although I try to use strategies that require a minimum amount of effort to think about for every turn. Even if that means knowingly losing. I do that because I don't like taking turns in games and especially not if it requires a greater amount of time.
I don't like to play those games at all. They require you to think and to wait for others to think for several turns which in turn means that one game can last long until it's finished. I respect others for playing them and having good skills but thinking about strategies and waiting for others to do the same....I can't handle that. I will even finish games before they've formally finished when I calculate that I have lost or won because I can't stand the waiting.

Are you good at any kind of games that require strategic thinking?
Can you focus or is it difficult for you?

I agree and the dislike of waiting or others in turn based. But a RTS like age of empires or halo wars I like. I can't explain why. I'm not very good though.

i would like to learn strategic games but it makes my head hurt.

i like to use strategies but when it comes to certain games it requires more concentration than i have.

I suck at strategy games, roleplaying games, games involving thinking about other players and what they are thinking and what I should do to defeat them based on what they are thinking and what they are going to do next and what I should do next to thwart them or advance my own cause. I know people who like Dungeons and Dragons, but I don't like it. I like games that I can play on my own, like Bejeweled and puzzle games and speed games and card games and word games. I used to play Scrabble with others though, but I sucked at Boggle. I don't like complicated games with lots of rules in books that you have to read to play the game.

I find that strategic games are usually too complicated for me. I'm also a very competitive person but I get so competitive that I purposely try to stay away from those types of games.

I enjoy playing strategy games and games in which you have to take turns and wait through other people's turns. Having to pay attention to not only my own course of action but to patiently wait through the turns of others and pay attention to what they're doing and to what they might be planning is exciting. I know some people like to tell me it's "good training for my autism".

They're likely correct but that's not my motivation for joining an evening of board games or playing strategy video games.

It is the difficulty that draws me in. Knowing this is hard for me and feeling that I struggle to pay attention and need to focus if I want to have a good time (and to avoid to be eliminated early and then get bored) is what motivates me. I also happen to feel very comfortable with analysing people's courses of thoughts, predicting what the people I'm playing might plan on doing in a game is easy and sometimes makes me giddy, so playing games like these isn't merely hard on my focus, patience, optional team-work, silly small talk and verbal comprehension but also easy and fun in other aspects.

That is why when I was age 11-12 and learnt that such games exist, I instantly liked to play strategy board games (and some video games) when I had developed enough communication skills and patience to be entertained by my parents playing with me.

I didn't enjoy games with others much before that. Playing games bored me, I had no idea what the others were saying most of the time. It was noisy too.

On some days I can't play such games when I'm too hyperactive and my focus won't focus but I do much better on other days. Especially so if a game's level of difficulty catches my attention, if I don't know the game but it looks interesting or if I'm with friends and someone suggests to play a game that they say is silly, confusing or hard.

When someone tries to "catch me" by claiming I sure will lose because a game's so hard or because they've mastered it, well, I'm out then usually.

I don't usually care much for normal competition, it leaves me bored to win at useless things. Knowing I could win if I got it together is enough for me. Even so, every now and then the expressions of complete utter defeat on other people's faces is priceless and makes them so awesomely fiery to pay me back; I enjoy the banter that follows.

The only exception is that I steer clear of "strategy" games that involve determining whether someone tells the truth or lies. I know when I'm lied to in the face (at least on most occasions, hard to be sure of this with how much people lie) and end up getting bored and cranky having to wait for the others to determine the same.

I play a lot of strategy games. However, I prefer solo PC games to anything with someone else because I take too much time thinking. In one of my games, Heart of Iron III, a WWII simulation game, it can take twenty minutes for me to play a single in-game day if I am, for example, invading Russia with Germany or another large campaign. However, I always succeed in the end.

I like doing almost the same thing in different ways, until it is perfect. In that same WWII game, I created a save game in 1939 so I could invade Poland over and over. In other games, I also tend to play with one specific country, or play the same campaign several times, until I am entirely satisfied that I can't do better.

In games like chess or checkers, I like to build some kind of grand scheme of perfectly positioned pieces, with hypothetical impressive sweeping movements for complete success, but I always end up forgetting what my opponent is doing. I have never won a chess game against a human being, but I am very decent at checkers.