Frans Peeters. The cliché says good decisions take time. But in professional chess, the opposite pattern keeps appearing.

Faster decisions in professional chess yield higher quality results, showing that overthinking hinders intuitive success.

A new study suggests that complex strategic decisions may be better when made with less thinking time, highlighting the role of intuition in decision-making.

In chess, faster decisions are on average of higher quality. This is the conclusion of a study that has just been published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The team of ...

This post was written with Nada Saaidia and David J. Grüning. Chess is mental torture. — Garry Kasparov Why play chess if it is torture, as Kasparov testified? One view is that chess is a social trap ...