Similarly, once you make your move, you can’t take it back. Once your choice is made in life, it cannot be undone. Both in life and in chess, you have a multitude of scenarios laid out in front of you, but you can only choose one. What I find most engaging about this branch of economics is how the games analyzed tend to represent real-life decision-making situations.įor example, chess imitates life and vice versa. Thus, one can say that there is no hidden information in a game like chess. Your opponent doesn’t have any hidden pieces up to his sleeve now, does he? Chess, in theoretical terms, falls into the category of combinatorial games.Ĭombinatorial Game Theory, popularly abbreviated as CGT, studies strategies and mathematics of two-player games of perfect knowledge such as chess.Īn important distinction between this subject and classical game theory is that game players are assumed to move in sequence rather than simultaneously, so there are no information-hiding strategies. In a nutshell, Game Theory is applied mathematics, mostly to social circumstances and more importantly, situations where payoffs are interdependent towards each other.įor example, in a game like chess, where one’s position is affected by a move that their opponent makes. The manner in which the mind of a chess player functions whilst playing the game very strongly mimics the certain concepts of an on the up and up branch of Economics referred to as Game Theory. I’ve been playing competitive chess for the past 7 years, and I’ve always been fascinated by how the game is so seemingly convoluted yet at the same time, straightforward. What initially began as a hobby has evolved to become a way of life for me. From curious seven-year-old playing chess with his elder sister to representing India at the World Youth Chess Championships, chess has been an integral and transformative part of my life.
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