Re: The Answer
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It's impossible to argue that there in an element of chance/luck in a fight.
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Two fighters of not greatly different skill levels and stats: the better fighter will almost always win? I don't think so. Usually win, yes, but not almost always.
The same holds true chess. If the gap is large enough then it can be considered a certain victory, but not so if the gap is not fairly large.
The better fighter or player will win more than he loses versus an opponent who is moderately worse. But if they play a series of games, there will still be some wins and losses on each side.
You may well argue that there is no luck in chess either. That's true in the abstract sense of the game, but not entirely true in the real world. And the slightly inferior player will still have a share of wins and draws against the slightly better opponent.
So while there may be very little luck or chance in the game or the fight itself taken abstractly, there will yet be variance in the results of any given single game if one player is not much superior to the other.
By the way, there has to be more luck in fighting than in chess, simply because it is partially a matter of luck if a blow lands squarely or slips slightly off due to the movements of the contestants. I'm not talking about deliberately dodging a blow, just the natural effect that hitting a moving object is less than certain in the quality of the impact. Sort of the way a baseball player hits the ball, even on an easy pitch. Some hits against easy fat pitches will be home runs and some will be fly balls and some will be grounders. Sometimes a punch in the face will hit squarely and other times it will glance off partially, simply due to the moving nature of fighting and the fact that humans are not perfect robots. So the "lucky punch" can happen, as can also the unlucky glancing punch that would have been a KO but now is just a bee sting.
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