Re: chess or poker
Maybe a better question would be why play chess when the financial rewards from poker are huge in comparison? I used to play chess and know several top players; their various jobs - waiter, taxi driver, or just plain unemployed - put them right at the bottom of the social ladder. Yet some of them are brilliant and could have been top scientists, engineers etc. Instead they spend hours every day training to hopefully win some pathetically small prize (in comparison to poker). I know a lot of them think they're extremely smart; how smart can they be when their game of choice has such inferior rewards?
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