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Message: [QUOTE="primrose, post: 7183609, member: 1036998"] As someone who's played both games quite a bit, my main hot take is that chess is way, way harder. It takes so much more skill to be a pro in chess vs. poker, like a factor of 20x at least. Strategy does exist in both games, but the amount is not comparable at all. If you do it well, you can become pretty solid in poker in a few months, definitely enough to play for a small profit, if not for a living. In chess, you can study hard for two years and you'll probably still get crushed by a decent club level player, who would themselves get crushed by a strong club level player, and then there's several more steps upward until we get to anyone playing professionally. The flipside is that improving in chess is way easier. You can get to strong club level player strength without ever explicitly studying. Just play long games and think about your moves, and you'll get better. And playing itself is also much easier. There's no waiting around for good hands, no bad beats, no frustration, no tilt. You just sit down, and for 3 hours or however long you're playing, you can be completely immersed in your game, with no boredom and a significant but still pretty modest role of luck. (And then if you lose, who cares, it's just a game.) And if you do study your games, which you don't even have to, it's also infinitely easier than in poker. You just turn on any engine and it will immediately tell you exactly what you should have done in every position. No arguing, no conflicting advise, and you don't even need other players to do it. If you only care about having fun, I'd recommend chess over poker to most poeple tbh, it just entails so much less frustration. But you'll also never make a cent with the game. [/QUOTE]

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