Depends on what shift I’m working. Day shift I’ll shower at night because I don’t have time in the morning. Night shift I’ll shower in the morning.

I definitely prefer showering in the morning, (I also prefer night shift) a good shower just generally feels like a good start to the day. It helps me wake up and gives me time to mentally prepare for the day.

In some sense this is correct. Chess strategy is fairly well documented, and a skilled player will know quite a bit of how a game will play out based on a given board state.

In another sense, there are something like 10^46 legal board states that can be reached from the starting state across all legal permutations of the game rules.

It’s functionally impossible for a person to know the outcome of a game from the first move.