Just curious how many of you, if any, multitable Poker with Chess (or other games), or just multitable Chess games.

I've not played many board games online in the last few years, so my only multitabling has been Poker by itself, but I thought it might be interesting to have a game of Chess or Go going while playing Poker. Yes, of course it would hurt your game. Maybe it's a terrible idea, feel free to say so if that's what you think.

I could see playing a computer while playing poker, because then you can keep the poker games moving, leaving the chess/go game whenever needed, without making a real person wait.

Sometimes when I'm bored or when I want to avoid tilt I start up a chess blitz game while playing anywhere from 2 to 4 tables of poker.

i will play 15 minute or longer games online while playing poker every now and then. normally if i am just playing 1 tourny like sunday million though, rarely when playing cash

I have done magic, chess, and poker all at once. nerd triathalon

I'd never do this in a million years.

Play poker and chess at the same time? I agree it would be difficult, I mean sometimes your opponent puts you to the test, for a small fraction of a normal buyin at the table, and you need to devote all your energy to making the right call.

I dunno I'm a professional poker player (as I'm sure some of you are), I don't **** around like that ever. Also I'd play MUCH MUCH worse at chess to the extent that it wouldn't be remotely fun. You can't just have your mind distracted by all kinds of things and expect to beat really good players or put together any kind of complete game.

Sometimes I'll play a blitz game and go through my old games in chessbase if my opponent is thinking. I'm also not big on cross-gaming with poker. I don't even browse 2+2 while pokering.

I'm always browsing the web/talking on AIM/watching sport on TV while playing poker, but wouldn't consider playing chess at the same time.

So play bad players, I'm always available

How about multitabling chess and heads up poker AGAINST THE SAME OPPONENT?

Kind of like chess-boxing, but with poker instead of boxing. Start a chess game and a poker game at the same time, time controls (and a time limit to make each decision in poker) would have to be relatively balanced. If the same person wins the chess game and the poker they win. If the chess game is drawn then whoever ends up with all the chips is the winner. If one person wins chess and the other person wins poker, it's a draw (or you could switch sides on the chessboard and play again, possibly with shorter time controls).

I smell an amazing prop bet here!

Heres the problem with this. Ive thought of this concept before but it just doesnt work. Chess boxing is a genius creation because you need to be good at both, and someoen who is terrible at one and good vs the other is probably 50/50 vs someone who is vice versa.

In Chess-Poker, the better chess player is always the hgue favorite all the time. Its borlderine similar to a 2 event match of a chess game and a coin flip

Though for 2 people tht know each others chess games are are very even to each other i guess it can still make a good prop bet

in chess boxing, if you are favourite to knock someone out you are a big favourite to win. If you are evenly matched in boxing it comes down to the chessboard -- that's the only really interesting scenario.

Poker-chess wouldn't work because no one cares which nerd runs better in poker. Poker-chess-boxing might have some chance.

Eh if the person is a Huge favorite in the ring but a huge dog on the chess board you think this favors the better boxer? What if the better chess player is just good enough to dodger him for a couple of rounds until the early checkmate? I mean if youre a huge favorite in the ring but close to even in chess yes of course youre right, but lets say we matched up Curtains vs Mike Tyson. You feel Tyson is the heavy favorite, idk about this. Remember the match STARTS with chess and you cant stall.

We will assume Curtains can move basically instantly each turn and always defeat Tyson meaning at most the chess match can only last 3 rounds, meaning Curtains needs to at most SURVIVE 2 rounds of boxing. Probably 1, possibly 0. I'm not saying he always can accomplish this, but maybe 50% of the time? idk, Ill admit idk much about boxing.

I think you can sort of stall in chess, you can't completely stall, but you can stall a little bit...enough so that if you will KO someone in Round 1 it should be absolutely no problem.

Btw chance of me surviving one round of boxing with mike tyson is almost surely zero.

i think resigning first move of the chess game is best strategy in that game v tyson

When I first started, playing low limit LHE on one or two tables, I found playing a 15 minute chess game would help keep me from playing too many hands pre-flop.

Funny, I had a similar solution: I opened more tables. :-)

I think it'd surely be the boxer as the favorite for a simple reason. In chess, if you win a very short game - it's because your opponent played poorly, and not because you played brilliantly. Whereas a guy like Tyson was knocking out undefeated world champions in the first round in his prime. To think an amateur boxer would last more than one round (or can we bring that down to 60 seconds?) against a champion boxer is kind of silly imo.

Again, I know nothing about boxing so correct me if im wrong. But if your startegy in the match isnt to win but souly to last as long as possible I have to believe that changes things no?

I am trying to figure out how to simul against the computer on my macbook, as the idea seems fun to me, especially if I could adjust the strength of my opponent. Anyone got an idea how to do this?

Im playing my chess.com online turn based games while doing my political science paper.