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by mathgeek 920 days ago
> Because learning and improving is part of the pleasure of chess.

Important to remember this is not a universal truth for all people.

> If I play Catan with my friends, it’s fun…

Interestingly, you and I seem to be opposites here. I only play chess for fun and never care if I improve, but spent thousands of hours in my college years analyzing and improving at Catan. I wonder if this is simply a matter of whether one prefers deterministic or stochastic games for optimization.