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>There is an element of chance in chess. Whether an opponent plays an opening you have recently studied and how many mistakes your opponent makes is out of your
by na85 4y ago
>There is an element of chance in chess. Whether an opponent plays an opening you have recently studied and how many mistakes your opponent makes is out of your control.
That's really not what's meant by chance. Chess is no more a game of chance than tennis or golf.
In poker, there's an element of randomness that's an explicit core part of the game (the deck).
No such mechanic exists in chess.
- brianwawok 4y agoHey tennis and golf have wind and ant hills and birds. That’s more “chance” than chess.
- MiddleEndian 4y agoTennis (and other interactive sports, like boxing) have a form of built-in randomness similar to rock paper scissors. Obviously not to the same level of randomness, but you both execute an action at the same time not knowing what the other person is going to do (although if your reflexes and awareness are higher, you're playing that RPS game faster than the other player). An example that makes this element really obvious is turn-based fighting video game Toribash.