i agree. i'm not a great chess player, but i think the common threads between poker and chess are that in both games there's calculation involved as well as thinking a step or 5 ahead. you can't just focus on the moment you're in now but you have to think about what your opponent(s) is or might do in the next move or next few
Nice comment... I have played a lot of chess... not competitively, mainly because of the rarity of those competitions in Canada, and Trinidad...and my family's fixation and pleasurability on competitive card games.
It is also very hard to continually improve you chess skills due to the need to continually player higher skilled players than yourself... and poker players are easy to get.
The main difference in the two games is "group enjoyability", because lets face it, neither is a spectator sport, and with poker/cards, the action is faster, more variable and more radical.
Its harder to bluff an attack on your opponent in chess...and in chess...when you lose, you lose... in poker, you can bluff now, and still play the next hand.
It is also very hard to continually improve you chess skills due to the need to continually player higher skilled players than yourself... and poker players are easy to get.
The main difference in the two games is "group enjoyability", because lets face it, neither is a spectator sport, and with poker/cards, the action is faster, more variable and more radical.
Its harder to bluff an attack on your opponent in chess...and in chess...when you lose, you lose... in poker, you can bluff now, and still play the next hand.
CCGs and Poker go naturally together quite well.
Never really considered chess and poker as very much alike. Despite everything said in this thread, really do not see much then broad generalized commonalities between the two games. In poker variance is a huge part of the game as is the human element. Not present in chess.
Never really considered chess and poker as very much alike. Despite everything said in this thread, really do not see much then broad generalized commonalities between the two games. In poker variance is a huge part of the game as is the human element. Not present in chess.
If there is anything common between chess and poker, it is psychology.
Chess is a very wise and difficult game to learn to play which is not easy. Many people think that they see everything but the wisdom of the game is not to see, but to understand what is happening.
For example: the understanding of a particular position in chess by a first-class player and a master is seriously different.
But the psychology of the players of these games have in common.
So in poker one more characteristic of aggressive play another passive wait-and-see. Some play only strictly defined hands others more relaxed style. So in chess, some play in a sharply attacking style (combinational), others in a strictly positional
For example, the brightest players attack Tal, Bronstein, and opposite them positional style Botvinnik, Petrosyan.
Chess is a very wise and difficult game to learn to play which is not easy. Many people think that they see everything but the wisdom of the game is not to see, but to understand what is happening.
For example: the understanding of a particular position in chess by a first-class player and a master is seriously different.
But the psychology of the players of these games have in common.
So in poker one more characteristic of aggressive play another passive wait-and-see. Some play only strictly defined hands others more relaxed style. So in chess, some play in a sharply attacking style (combinational), others in a strictly positional
For example, the brightest players attack Tal, Bronstein, and opposite them positional style Botvinnik, Petrosyan.
