Chess – An Analogy for Conversation

Honestly, the whole conversation == chess argument feels a bit contrived, for lack of a better word. It reminds me of Kasparov's book How Life Imitates Chess, which tried to compare business, politics, and other real-world scenarios to chess. It felt the same way to me - like a rather tortured analogy.

I will say one thing for this article - it is well put together and nicely formatted. I mean that sincerely: it's aesthetically quite pleasing.

If that's what they want, that's what a good conversationalist delivers. If you have an agenda, it's a meeting not a conversation.