Chess and ADD | ADHD Information

I dont see why it wouldnt be a legit view

Isnt that what the med is supposed to do? Increase the abiltiy to focus or concentrate, make us more aware, and increase attention span?  Sounds like chess would be a good test if one was already a player and enjoyed the game.

sherry

Thank you.  I always thought that chess is such a good test of someones intelligence.  I think before I didnt have the attention span to focus on the moves and where I need to be on the board and "think ahead".  It just shocked me that I won my first of 11 games the first day I took meds. I just started concerta today.  I started playing yahoo chess about 2 weeks ago and played 11 games and didnt win once.  Then I took concerta today and played 2 games.  Won my second against a decent player.  Before I was loosing to sh*tty players.  I found this ironic and really think that this is a sign that my med was working.  Beign good at chess involves not making stupid mistakes, thinking ahead and all that good stuff.  Is this a legit view?

my dad and younger brother played chess.

i was always envious, and a little jealous.

though i am probably smarter than either of them(they both made comments that they thought so), i was always a poor player.

couldn't keep my mind on the game long enough. couldn't really plan ahead. all that speculating made me bonkers and really caused an overload. too damn many choices, too many possibiities.

and then to sit through the game! it's hard to play a game when you can't get up and move around. that makes opponents mad.

but good on ya for turning yourself around. maybe i will too, someday.

i admire the game, i just need to be able to sit and think. i think better when i'm moving. 

Did the same thing with Yahoo Collapse.

Could only get up to about level 3 or 4 before loosing before stratterra.

AFter a couple weeks on straterra, I could get to level 10!

BUT straterra also had an effect on me in which I stayed STUCK on things.  I WOULD BE PLAYING COLLAPSE FOR HOURS!!!  just Constantly getting to level 10 and loosing.  Then working back up to level 10 and loosing...over and over and over.  I COULD NOT PULL MYSELF AWAY FROM COLLAPSE!!

and if I did manage to pull myself away, I would just get stuck on something else totally unimportant for hours!!! I constantly wasted precious time. So I don't take straterra anymore.

  I was always good at chutes and ladders.. I find that game to be a good measure of intelligence...

now where did my loaded dice go?

i was also kinda good at chess, well the attack part anyway, i always started to strugle when i had most the opponints bits and had to get a check mate, that was the only bit i found boaring and could not always do, up to that point i was gooddunno... I've always been good at chess but that was always due to hyper
focus. I got 1st place in a jhs tournament. But for some reason, I could
never progress and missed a lot of moves against the super advanced
players so I stoped playing. I wonder if the medication that I'm taking
now will start to help that.

ha - and i am completely the opposite.  i find the beginning boring, too much shuffling around, and like when you can get down to a few pieces and checkmate.  weird huh?

we ADDers are a diverse bunch!

im like the complicated bit, where your trying to set traps and ambush key peices without your oponent knowing, i just cant manage the next bit it can take me like 15 turns to then get a checkmate. weird.

we ADDers are a diverse bunch! nah i think the word is a "screwd" up bunch.

screwd up in a good way though

 

I love chess.  The first time my older sister taught me how to play, I beat her.  I beat her every time.  She wouldn't play me anymore.

I got on an internet chess game that took days!!!   You could make one move in a week!!  I thought it would drive me nuts, but I spent hours on one move.  I hyperfocused that is for sure.  My mind is analytical in some aspects like this, but then I totally can't get organized in other aspects. 

I finally got off the chess after the one game.  I lost, perhaps that is why I didn't try again.   But I think in reality, it just took so long and it was such a waist of time.  I decided that I wasn't going to do it anymore.  I'd rather play a game of chess with kids in my 4th grade class or my own kids and make some quality time.

 

I haven't played chess since I was medicated. Post Ritalin, I used to play FreeCell, with a winning percentage of 99%, a losing streak of 1, and a winning streak of 429 before I got so freaked out a/b perhaps losing the next game that I never played again...    When I was in the Millitary, I played a guy 48 times before I won an 'honest' game of chess. No one wants to play me anymore in my family, I wonder why!