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Message: [QUOTE="francisco mendoza, post: 6462480, member: 421480"] Critics argue that addiction can be exacerbated the greater the degree to which a game's outcome depends on randomness or uncertainty. In games like chess, in which the outcome depends much more on your own skill and that of your opponent than on chance, it is difficult to get addictively hooked (no matter how much you enjoy the game) since the repeated and predictable losses that occur produced by playing against more skilled players will tend to reduce, rather than increase, the desire to continue playing. On the contrary, in games in which "just one more game" with a strong bet could lead to recovering the losses incurred, they emphasize the need to continue playing, and can cause an addictive spiral. [/QUOTE]