Reuters followed Seth Makowsky’s work beyond football, into the Olympic ranks, where the same chess-based method is used to sharpen decision-making in sports judged on precision under enormous pressure.
In events where the smallest mental error separates a podium from fourth place, the training targets exactly that capacity: executing a process rather than reacting, and compartmentalizing a mistake so it never bleeds into the next moment of a routine.
The throughline across every sport Makowsky touches is the same — composure is a trainable skill, and the board is where you build it.
Summary of Reuters’s coverage of Poison Pawn, prepared for poisonpawn.com.
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