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Originally Posted by centerright
Chess is MUCH more complex than poker and requires a higher level of intelligence. Anyone who says otherwise is clearly mistaken.
The two require two totally different intelligence types, although it's possible for the chess intelligence type to overlay with poker (although the winning-poker intelligence type would offer absolutely no advantage whatsoever in chess)
The greatest poker players usually have a genius for compiling seemingly irrelevant (to mere mortals) fragments of imperfect information and contrasting it against a range of probabilities, further against the organic, human intentions of their opponent. There are skills involved here that most chess players don't have.
I completely agree that Chess requires a more conventional intelligence type that a lot of winning poker players are lacking, but the intelligence type winning poker players have is usually just as absent in chess-playing types
(obviously, exceptions to every rule, but I'm pretty sure about this based on my own observations in life as a semi-serious chess player when I was younger, and a mediocre poker player now)