Blog 22: Answer #3

Essential Question: What is the best way to win a game of chess?

Answer 3: It is important to remember to remain flexible during a game while also remaining consistent with your strategy.

Evidence
- A player who is flexible to the opponent's moves (can quickly adapt to any situation that occurs on board) will not have much success in the result of the game if there is no underlying strategy that your ultimate goal ends up in. 
- In the same way, a player who doesn't deviate from his per-determined strategy will also be unsuccessful because adapting to an opponent's moves is a huge part of knowing what specific strategies will work against them.
- It is important to keep a combination of both flexibility and consistency during a game, flexibility to react well to an opponent's strategy and the consistency of using a set strategy to actually work towards an endgame.

Source
- An article called flexibility vs consistency found on chess.com actually enlightened me on the importance of both factors and made me consider it as an answer.
- During my 3rd interview I actually asked the question, " What is more important, flexibility or consistency?" to be answered with wise advice that a combination of both is essential.
- Speaking on personal experience with the game, I have found that responding to every opponent's move will make you aggressive but will not give you a solid board position. Playing stiffly off a recently-learned strategy might be terrible against an opponent who is reacting to your moves and continuing with a failed plan will only lead you to a loss.