[knuckleheads]

Was it intuitive when you were first learning to play? Or have you gotten used to understanding positions via centipawns?

[recursivecaveat]

It's always made as much sense to me as being up or down money in Monopoly, or points in basketball. Stating the W/L value of a position feels like an weird mixing of the present and future to me. Of course the centipawn value holds an implicit prediction of the future, but the indirection makes it more palatable.

[deklesen]

I learned chess when I was 5, and didnt have a chess computer in the first like 5 years and by then I have progressed quite far.. so i cannot really tell

[knuckleheads]

Makes sense. I started learning how to play Chess when I was ~30 and my tutors were just chess engines, game reviews on chess.com and whatever books I found interesting enough to get through. I have fun, and that's all I'll ever have, no titles or anything. The centipawn stuff makes sense now, but it took a while.