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I had lots of company over today. Well, my parents did.
One of them was Barbara, who, after coming over, decided she had an urge to play chess with me.

"Alright, but I suck at Chess."
"That's okay, I am horrible too," She replied.

And my mom, in her constant idiocy, yells from the kitchen, "I didn't know you knew how to play chess."

Many hours later, for resons not worth mentioning, we do play chess.

Reasoning in real life is just like Chess.

When you find yourself in a precarious situation, and decide to move your knight out, you just may find that either way you put your L, you're screwed. You only see it right after you take your hand off the piece, however.
"Oh, s**t, I mean this," And you do your L the opposite way. But you are still pinned.
"One or the other, Q" Barbara says to me.
I furrow my brows and reply, "Can I just not do the move at all?"
She laughs with a, "Sure."

We come to places in our lives with three options. Do it, do it the opposite way, or not do it at all. Much with my knight move, we can do one thing expecting something to happen, but mess up.

For example, if I had been in a grocery store, and seen a melon, and I wanted the melon, I could steal it, buy it, or leave it alone.
Say I try to steal it, but get caught in the act. "No, I meant to buy it!" So you look in your pockets for the cash, but you have none. Now you are left to do nothing, but only at the other person's discretion.

How we do things in Chess just may illustrate what goes through are minds in select situations.

I moved my Castle and Bishop in conjunction with one another, thinking they would work well together. Moving the castle to take the opponent's knight, with my castle to back it up.

Unfortunetly, while I did take the knight, I failed to see the lowly pawn.
"Oh," barbara winced to me, "Did you not see this?" And she took away my Bishop.

Planning ahead, but failing to see consequences seems to be a large click right there. My castle could not take her pawn, lest it be swiped as well.

Needless to say I lost that Chess game. I have lost Checkers games to five year olds(true). My brain cannot think ahead, and therefore is a horrible source for tactics and maneuvering. While sometimes, it can think well on it's own, as I do win in Checkers more often than not, those are on simplified grounds, and not as complex as our society today.

Society is much like chess, and the way we think can be paralleled to it; how well we do in life, just may impact how well we play a chess game.