Checkmate to Competition: Applying Chess Strategies to Business Innovation

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Truth be told, I never reason board game as a strategic game or should I just say I didn't see it as one back then, I have been a fan of board games right from my primary school days, there were various local indoor games that was really popular back then, from ludo which we the children can play easily to draft for the elderly ones and also Ayo olopon, all I do know was that things kind of games need lot of thinking before making a move, and making any wrong moves can put you at a disadvantage against your opponent.

Back then, I do call myself a champion in ludo games because I do play with some elderly ones at home and I do watch how they think before they make a move unlike me that will just count as I like and they will always kept send me back home until I notice their strategy to always camp at their opponent house and send it back home whenever it came out. Then I saw people playing chess and it was somehow hard to figure it out even till now, chess is one hard strategic game that I really wish I know how to play but maybe with time I will. Later on while watching war movies and also in the avatar where General iroh was playing Pai Sho, it opened my eyes to see how this board games do help those general in being strategic during wars.

I have watched a couple of chess gameplay and I have played with some hive users while using using the game section on neoxian city discord even though they do beat me blue black, I was able to gain a lot from the game especially the lesson about positioning and sacrifice, I get to know that every piece are very important and they all have a role to perform, you have to learn to sacrifice to be able to gain because sacrificing a piece can open a position for you which can give you more advantage against your opponent. People can really implement this in a real life use case, sacrificing those piece is all about taking risk to know what next move to take, like they use to say the only risk is not taking any risk at all.

There are many ways this can be apply in business, before starting a business we need to first of all analyse the competitive markets we want to venture into, position yourself while learning the consumer behaviour to the goods and services you are will to offer, gathering your resources and also learn how to use and manage them which is really important in staying strong.

This is my entry to day 13 May inleo prompt, to participate you can read the announcement post here