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Message: [QUOTE="BetterThanAvgButNotByMuch, post: 6391439, member: 480921"] I tried it playing it as a kid and didn't take it serious. I wasn't good and once I realized the amount of studying for openings and endgames to get better then I stopped. Chess seems a lot more specific with situations than poker and being able to recognize those variations like the openings and endgames and things like knowing how to mate your opponent with certain pieces in the endgame is more involved than most poker situations like playing a hand where its raised big time and you have some bad hand like 62, lol. Poker is less involved and you can get out a lot of spots in poker without having to know the counter moves in chess. Put it this way, if you start playing NL holdem or basically any form of poker then each and every poker book would tell you how to play a solid straightforward game like what hands to raise and fold from every position then you would go off into more detailed ideas. I would guess you could go a lot further knowing general poker concepts and developing your poker game around general concepts than in chess. But I'm guessing because I never got far in chess. But when you start playing chess its different. When you start learning those openings and there a more a dozen, a lot more, lol you can buy books on how to play those specific openings, And I mean detailed books not pamphlets on how to play those openings and the variations and how to counter them and they'll go into famous games for examples and it goes on and on. lol. Compared to poker, no one is going to write a specific book dedicated on how to play 78s or AA in the preflop, lol. Chess was just too involved for me, lol. I knew it be like dedicating yourself to something like a college degree to become decent in chess and didn't want to do it. And because of the amount of prize money and competition in poker the same can be said about poker (depending how high you play) as well now which is crazy thinking about how far the best of the best poker players have improved since the 1990s and then how fast beginner poker players can improve today because of the online games. [/QUOTE]

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