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Chess between two humans is far from a game of complete information.
It's not always about calculating accurately ahead, that's just one aspect of the game. You can never calculate all variations and neither can computers at the moment, nor will they for a very long time, although of course they will always have an advantage in that part. Chess most definetely *is* a game of uncertainty and making decisions with incomplete information.
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Information is not about the ability to calculate.
A situation where you don't have all relevant information and can't calculate is different from a situation where you do have all relevant information and can calculate.
To speak in military terms everything that is unknown in chess is a known unknown. In life there are unknown unknowns (what Nassim Taleb would call the Black Swan).
The problem in thinking in terms of games is that you start to think that every unknown in life is also a known unknown.
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A great athlete manages to stay poised under fire. An elegant lady keeps her grace under pressure. How different are those situations really?
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Saying that you should keep your grace under pressure doesn't really help you.