Re: chess or poker
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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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i havent thought too deeply yet about the OP's question, but initially i tend to share your views. chess seems far more complex and involved to me. i understand that there are tons of intricacies in poker as well, but often the significance in ev between two different lines is almost infinitesimal.
i also think chess probably correlates better w/ IQ. To be truly great at chess, you probably need a pretty dam high IQ. I think in poker, a high level of play is more attainable for those w/ only reasonably high IQ's (i.e. Doyle Brunson is widely considered one of the best in the world. I could be wrong, but judging by how he writes and thinks, I don't think his IQ is astronomically high. Anyone know what his IQ is?
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