In poker, the study is indispensable to make a jump in quality in the game. In chess, the learning sessions of openings, finals and strategic variants are also required. Above all, its most dedicated practitioners share the use of statistical tools to analyze weaknesses in the game, one of the least intuitive needs for anyone who comes to poker for the first time. Still, there is still a certain elitism among practitioners Of chess, rooted in the great difference that jumps to the naked eye between the two games. A correct play in the chess will never cause a weakening of the position, because luck has no place among the 64 squares.
Finally, and this is the real reason for the great percentage of success in the adaptation of a chess player to poker, in both disciplines you have to overcome the levels of thinking of the rival. The deception, the masking and the sacrifice gradually outnumber the positioning as the middle phase of the game progresses.
