Author: Boro Sitnikovski

Chess

Chess is a board game, with 8×8 tiles and some figures on them. It’s a turn-based game, usually played by two players (or one, for practicing), and the players move these figures according to certain rules. The winner is whoever gets first to the other person’s King (a special figure). If you want to further learn the basics of it, this is a good introductory read.

Simple, right? In this post I’ll explain why I like chess and how I got obsessed with it lately 🙂

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Thinking, Fast & Slow Summary

After this book was recommended to me by too many friends and coworkers, I decided it’s time to read it.

The structure of the book is such that concepts are introduced with examples, backed by scientific experiments. At the end of each chapter, summary statements are included.

It’s an okay book, though I cannot say that I have learned a ton from it – most of the stuff I had already experienced or read somewhere else. I liked the “puzzles” bit. The author starts talking about something and then walks you through your own thought processes while you were reading that piece. Felt pretty similar to GEB, in a way.

The book could’ve used a bit of structure to make things more explicit. I think a proper categorization of “Definitions”, “Experiment”, “Results”, “Takeaway” would make for a much easier read. Every page is just filled with letters – there’s a lot of text! 🙂

Here I will give a short summary of every part.

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