@30700d9a My ex, who played jazz among other things, liked to read books about chess strategies before going to bed. And it seemed to me at the time like there’s a similarity between the two disciplines, in terms of immersing enough to become fluent in sequences which one can then draw on as needed. 

 @223cead5 I think there’s a lot more rote learning than I never imagined. More like learning how to solve a Rubic’s Cube.