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Originally Posted by curtains
Well what does it mean for a game to be harder than another one then? For all games, as long as you are basing the difficulty of the game on comparison to others, they will all be equal. A random young child should have just as much a chance of becoming one of the top 100 poker players as they would have in becoming one of the top 100 chess players (assuming everything was equal, such as player pool etc).
Right now, in the current state of the two games, I believe that it's much much more likely for a random adult with no knowledge of either of the games to become one of the top 10 poker players in the world, than one of the top 100 chess players in the world (especially since this has almost never happened in recent times).
Without talking about this while comparing the actual state of the two games, it seems like a silly argument. Are we arguing how likely it is for a human to play optimally? How likely it is for a computer to "solve" one of the games?
Obviously some poker players' egos can't accept that chess is much more difficult. However, having played both, the claim that poker is as complicated or more complicated just seems absurd. I've played chess for years and studied it hard but I'm only Class A USCF. In poker, I started winning consistently and moving up through stakes within a few months after having learned the rules. Still, both games are quite complicated when played at a high level.
Last edited by suncar; 12-10-2009 at 09:42 PM.