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I can't find it now, but I once saw someone do a statistical analysis on this very question. The logic went something like this:

1) identify a skill interval such that the player at the top of the skill interval beats the player at the bottom 75% of the time

2) count how many of those intervals seperate the worst player from the best player.

The guy's conclusion was that poker had more skill tiers than chess, but Go had like twice as many as poker.

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B I N G O, atleast as a way of thinking when identifying skill depth in a game.

A thing that may speak in chess' favor if you measure it like this, is that it probably takes more work to go from one skill 'level' to another in chess.

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Ridiculous