Being a game that requires deep thinking and has lots of small nuances, I believe there are many life lessons that we can take from playing chess. In this post, I want to share a few that I've noticed and experienced. It is by no means an exhaustive list, but it's a list of the ones that I found interesting.

"Speech is silver, but silence is golden"

As a self acclaimed introvert, I absolutely lived by that quote. In a lot of situations, I thought that it was wise to stay silent. Or perhaps I was just using it as an excuse. "It's not that I don't have anything to say, I chose not to say anything!" Of course, I would also have long conversations where I do talk, usually in something that I would call deep talks. I saw it as the only form of talks that are worth having.

However, I then learned about the importance and necessity of small talk.