I disagree with the ending of your speech. I know many chess players who are terribly easy to bluff and are too tight passive to ever profit in poker. All good chess players suck Terribly at playing against LAG heavy playstyle because they make it so blatant when they can be bluffed or how strong their hand is. My father is a good chess player and I can barely cope against him at the game but in poker I wipe the floor with him heads-up.
You know some chess players who are bad at poker, so this proves that no chess players are successful at poker?
Dan Harrington and Jennifer Shahade come to mind right away, and I'm sure a Google search would come up with other names.
I disagree with the ending of your speech. I know many chess players who are terribly easy to bluff and are too tight passive to ever profit in poker. All good chess players suck Terribly at playing against LAG heavy playstyle because they make it so blatant when they can be bluffed or how strong their hand is. My father is a good chess player and I can barely cope against him at the game but in poker I wipe the floor with him heads-up.
I was a chess player and i now play poker. Your explanation is spot on in my opinionThe degree of skill in chess is significantly higher. As you said, there is no tilt, and no luck in chess. Yes, moves get overlooked due to rushing or just not viewing the entire board, but if you make the better moves, you win. In poker, you can do everything perfectly and lose because of the randomness of card distribution. Poker may be more emotionally demanding because of the luck factor, but chess is by far the tougher game. A poker player will use math to calculate potential hands, and try to get a read on their opponent. A chess player must take each potential opponent move, and play it forward for several moves (as a child I was told 8 moves ahead). In short, your hand in poker is random, whereas, in chess, the game is entirely in your hands.
If you want to compare chess with poker,Chess is a more limited hame than poker. Every game starts with the same way with the pawns at the same position, so the first moves are some specific moves and then it gets mote interesting
In poker from the beginning the only thing you know is just two cards from the 52 and you just see the other players. What comes next, is a battle which is unique and you do not know for sure anything even woth aces.
So poker is something tougher than chess!