Greg Costikyan wrote an interesting article about chess and its complexities. Although chess in some ways is the antithesis of poker, in that it has an abject lack of chance or randomness during play, I've found that a lot of poker players enjoy chess. I enjoy analyzing chess situations in a similar way to how I enjoy analyzing poker situations; although the possible outcomes from a position are not reliant on chance as they are in poker, anticipating which of the moves is most likely by your opponent "feels" similar to assessing probabilities in poker to me.

In any event, the article is at least a good introduction to Costikyan's excellent weblog on games and game design.

...games of this type rely on emergent complexity--complicated strategies deriving from simple rules sets. And because the whole point of emergent complexity is that outcomes cannot readily be grasped from initial conditions, it's hard to derive a set of rules that create emergent complexity--at least at anything like the depth that Chess offers.

Link

There are a suprising number of very strong players who also play Poker. I am not sure what the link is, as Chess does not have too much luck involved...

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