Re: chess or poker
Only have a minute before bed now, but had to comment on this interesting point. Expect something more detailed tomorrow.
I'm 2100 (and change) FIDE, and a competent poker player. . . I think chess is immeasurably more difficult. Now that I'm trying to go from expert to master, I'm working very hard on chess for the first time in my life, and it's almost surreal how vast it is. You could spend a lifetime studying a single New in Chess yearbook, or one Dvoretsky text on the endgame. From the intellectual and psychological standpoints, chess is the hardest thing I do. . .
And I'm not even a master yet!
Just my two cents. Cheers.
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