Chess sucks.

Poker wins every time. Better shops and thread savers......

If you need to ask, you must be a terrible chess player.

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How much strategy teaching do you need to give to one of those chinese nitregs on pokerstars?
How hard is it to teach someone how to call single raises with any pocket pair, reraise with QQ/KK/AA/AK, get it in with AA/KK, play for stacks on the flop if you hit a set with your pocket pair...?
It's not like you need much more to beat NL10...

well, obviously, someone who just know the basics ( hand ranks/chess pieces movements, stuff like that ) will be much better at poker. At least he will win $ sometime ( even tho he'll obviously lose over the long run, unless he improves ). Which is why those 90/75 fish often have 3-4 buyins on the tables. Because being absolutely horrible in poker can still get you decent short term profits.

In chess, if you're horrible, you won't win anything. Not a game, not a good capture, not a good defense, not a good attack, nothing. You'll lose 100% of the time against a decent player.

But that's more about variance/luck than actual skill level.
So let's see it this way :
( I play both chess and poker btw ), if I were to try & teach someone to be a challenge for me in both game, it would be MUCH faster in poker.

Or from a slightly different point of view : If I were to teach someone how to be successful on the poker scene ( whether it'd be online or live ), again, it'd be much faster than teaching him how to be successful on the chess scene.

If you think you can give a definitive answer to a ridiculously underdetermined question then you must be terrible at logic.

In poker you can have short term wins even if you are a bad player, in chess you will lose every game against a much better player

i havent literally LOL'ed in BBV in a long time. those jesus pics are awesome. you need to forward them to RGT

The problem is that teaching someone to play chess is pointless: there's no money in chess! I've played thousands of games at some chess sites before I started playing poker, now I'm playing at microstakes and have won thousands of dollars.

FYP

No monies heads up in chess, too much variance.