340 - Thinking Sideways - Jennifer Shahade
5/25/20261 hr 3 min
There are more possible chess moves than atoms in the universe, and 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.
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First 90 secondsDavid McRaney· Host0:00
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Jennifer Shahade· Guest0:49
When people think about chess players, they think that we think really far ahead and that we analyze 10, 20 moves deep, which is really rare.
David McRaney· Host1:12
That is the voice of Jennifer Shahade, one of the friends of the show and one of the friends of David McRaney, who is me, your host, and Jennifer Shahade is a three-time United States