Good at logic, math, and computers, but horrible at Chess?

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When people find out how good I am at logic, math, and computers, they tend to think that I must be good at chess. But I'm awful at chess. When I play it, it is mentally really exhausting and I tend to do very badly.

Thinking it has to do with the fact that, although chess involves lots of logic, it also involves seeing the big picture and keeping track of lots of things at the same time and, although I'm good at logic, I have trouble seeing the big picture and I tend to lose track of things on the board.

Think that's common among those on the spectrum?

I'm only "moderately" good at math-----and the math is primarily "practical" math.

Logic can irritate me sometimes. Pure syllogisms sometimes don't make practical sense.

I've never gotten really interested in chess.

I like tabletop games, but not chess. I can play badly.

I'm good at the other stuff.

Playing chess requires a lot of knowledge about chess.
Even if you are good at maths/ logic/ computers, you'd still need to read a lot of chess books in order to improve.

So it may be because you didn't read much books about chess.

Nothing to do with autism. Most folks (NT and otherwise) I have meet who are good at chess are not mathletes, and vice versa.

Math and chess are totally different aptitudes.
Math, logic, and computers, are different aptitudes from each other.

And math isn't even the same as itself. Different branches of math differ from each other.

Folks in graduate programs in theoretical math often suck at doing arithmetic in their heads that high school drop outs (pi are squared? HELL NO! Pie are round. Cornbread are squared!) who run cash registers have no problem with.

I worked with an engineer at my inventory counting job. I could tell him that "three for eight dollars mean its 1.67 each" faster than he could figure it out, even though must have aced trig and calculus in school since he was an engineer (I never got past geometry and algebra).

I believe I'm good at logic (which is a subjective appraisal) and I know I'm bad at the rest.

I'm good at logic (or perhaps I should say: I'm good at logic puzzles, but I'm not a logical person in the everyday sense), maths and computers.

I am not good at chess. I cannot remember standard responses to common openings, and I also get bored, lose my thread and make a near-random move just to avoid irritating the other player. And then I wonder how all my pieces got in each other's way.

In am good at backgammon though. I enjoy calculating the probabilities when practicable, plus I seem to have a feel for the game that I don't experience with chess.

Computers I'm ok at. The rest, nope.

The last person who tried to teach me chess ended up throwing pieces at me in frustration.

Chess is mostly visual pattern recognition and moving/tracking objects in a visual 2 or 3d space. Logic, math, and computers have nothing to do with chess.

I am good at math, computers, and chess. Never studied chess books. I learned by playing games with other people.

I'm bad at logic, decent at maths and computers, and terrible at chess.
Don't know if it has anything to do with autism.

I'm quite good with computers, although you'd certainly hope that to be the case considering I took IT as a subject that I'm currently still studying.

Maths I am horrendously bad at. Mental Abuse To Humans indeed.

However, I am good at basic logic such as completing logic puzzles. Especially those slider puzzles where you have to move the pieces around the board so that they are in the correct order, and make a picture at the end. I'm quick at those, much to my older sister's annoyance since she tends to be less quick at completing them.

One time she spent half an hour trying to complete one, so in frustration she bet me that I couldn't complete the puzzle she was stuck on, so she put it back to how it was originally, and two minutes later I entered the room and showed her the completed puzzle. She just sat there, quite shocked.

I enjoy jigsaws, and I'm fairly good at those "What comes next in this sequence of shapes?" questions, so logic regarding patterns I seem to have a skill at.

But when it comes to chess...yeah, I'm not great. Certainly a lot of room for improvement. I'm alright at find four though, one time I was playing against someone and I planned it so that towards the end of the game they would only be able to place their counter in one of the slots, and once they'd done that it was an automatic win for me as I could only go on the one above- making a diagonal line of four.

My plan worked, and they only realised that they'd been tricked when they were about to put their counter in.

"Wait, if I put my counter in, you win"

"Yep"

"But, I can only put my counter here, there's nowhere else left"

"Mwhahaha"

"Dammit".

I'm bad at chess too. I suspect it's a 'Theory of Mind' thing, having difficulty guessing the other person's thoughts, motives, point of view, and likely reactions.

Very similar to my difficulties with conversation... I can try to guess what's the right thing to say, but I have no idea how the other person will react, and the conversation quickly moves into check mate.

Failed elementary school math and English. Barely passed math last year in freshman year of college had I not cheated on my homework.
Chess doesn't require math. It's just anticipating decisions, not thoughts. Be prepared to plan moves at least 3 turns in advance.