About this episode

Chess champion Jennifer Shahade discusses how to apply chess decision-making strategies to improve our choices.

Chess champion Jennifer Shahade tells us how we can borrow from the best chess players' decision-tree approach to avoid considering every possible option and instead "think sideways" to consider the best choices on the board.

People in this episode

Guest: Jennifer Shahade

Topics covered

• chess
• decision-making
• strategy
• cognitive psychology
• problem-solving

Keywords

• chess
• decision tree
• thinking sideways
• Jennifer Shahade
• strategy
• cognitive skills

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