I wonder if this author considers being good at chess a simulation of being good at something. regardless, there are many different types of game, and the auth

I wonder if this author considers being good at chess a simulation of being good at something. regardless, there are many different types of game, and the author makes the claim that young unemployed people play a specific type of game for a specific type of reason. He doesn't make this claim because the evidence is particularly compelling, but because that was the type of game that he played last march. The reason comes second. How would this article have read differently if he had instead picked up starcraft? This seems like very poor reasoning to me.