Re: chess or poker
hey. glad i found this, since i usually dont read this forum too often. i was actually just thinking about this question on my way back from the grocery store!
i am not so great at chess, but have never played too seriously (im probably around 1500ish). lately ive been studying the game a bit, trying to improve. i kind of want to prove to myself that im capable of becoming a decent player. in a strange way, i feel paranoid that if I cannot get good at chess, then perhaps i can never become great at poker, since both require a pretty high mental acumen to be very good.
but perhaps i should not worry about this- maybe the correlation between the two isn't all that parallel. i am very good w/ numbers, math, etc, and have a reasonably high iq, and am hopeful that this is sufficient to make me a pretty good poker player. well, enough rambling.
fwiw, i think it's a lot more difficult to be a 'pretty good' chess player than a 'pretty good' poker player. but to be great, i have no idea.
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