Learn chess as a PhD student

Been playing chess recently. Chess is oddly similar to research. Thinking and writing require steps similar to moving pieces on board, with eventually the paper you’re writing being the board. Concepts and sentences are the pieces. You need to move them into the correct order (position) on the board. And there is a similar goal of making the opponent (reviewer) to have a hard time attacking you.

Chess teaches logical thinking. That’s why it’s a good game for PhD students.