Chess

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, Chess has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Diary Of A CEO (Nov 2026). Used as a contrasting analogy to roulette to explain why viewing strategy as chess misleads decision-makers about escalation dynamics.

Chess is a board game for two players, played on a square board consisting of 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns, with each piece type having a different pattern of movement. An enemy piece may be captured by moving one's own piece onto the square it occupies. The objective of the game is to checkmate the enemy king. There are also several ways