Why chess died! The same for poker?
The above sentence could be easily rewritten as:
Why chess died? The same for poker!
More to follow but I'm almost done dropping this duece.
Why chess died! The same for poker?
The above sentence could be easily rewritten as:
Why chess died? The same for poker!
More to follow but I'm almost done dropping this duece.
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Do you know what pound a dildo up your ass is?Originally Posted by MrTickle
A rating of 1000 means you know almost nothing about the game, which is good since it is really easy to improve. It's not 2001 anymore just like poker.Do you know what pound a dildo up your ass is?
People are fascinated by the rise and fall of Bobby Fisher. He was the singular focus of an entire nation. He then fell hard.
I think from 2013 on we have been similarly fascinated by the fall of the famous poker players. Which former star is now busto or owes money. Most of the obituaries have been written.
Both games were thrust upon the public consciousness suddenly.
Chess was intertwined with politics (Cold War). The newspapers and nightly news treated it as front page and introduced the masses to a new game.
Poker together with the novelty of the internet similarly hit the masses hard. Again a new and compelling game. Moneymaker was Fisher. He too fell hard long ago.
For the average person the novelty has worn off in both cases.
Chess, Bridge, Backgammon and Poker will always have passionate players. The masses move on.
Huge parallel between Fisher and Stu Unger. We like both stories. At this point, I think we are more interested in examining the craters than the actual game of poker. People still make and watch movies about Bobby Fisher too
Poker had a longer run than Pokémon Go.
Last edited by Sanlmar; 05-10-2017 at 12:22 AM.
re: Chess decline...
not sure in which what time frame you are claiming a decline...but when the Soviet Union ended, a lot of financial support left chess, and that led to a decline in popularity at least in eastern Europe....
but at the same time, the game is growing in India & China, the two countries with the largest populations, and also, a recent report by FIDE claims that the number of FIDE rated players doubled 2008 - 2014 https://www.chess.com/news/view/fide...-the-rise-3367
Last edited by GrenadaRoger; 05-10-2017 at 05:08 AM.
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Chess didn't die. The whole premise of this thread is shit.
I play chess all day and there are several platforms where millions and millions of people play everyday from almost every country.
There is a difference between something dying and something have a flurry of popularity and then returning to a baseline.
TV made Bobby Fischer popular - there was nothing special about chess at that time. People think the poker boom was all ESPN, Matt Damon and Moneymaker, when it really was just the internet making it possible for anyone to play online. Now people aren't as enamored with the ability to gamble online.
Dead? Get away tae fuck
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I learned the basic rules of chess as a kid but never really played til I was around 19 on Yahoo! Chess. I didn't even know you could castle, i was real dogshit at the game. Yahoo! Chess didn't have a good elo matchmaking system, they just had 3 lobbies: beginner, intermediate and advanced. Needless to say I got my shit pushed in by assholes with 5000 games playing in the beginner lobbies frequently, but I learned by fire and stopped getting 4 move checkmated and started to win some. I eventually befriended a Jew in real life and one time we got bored of playing Tiger Woods Golf and went to Wal Mart and bought a chess board, and he started pushing my shit in. He won every fucking game, and taught me Jew tricks like castling and the en passant. I enjoyed the abuse for some reason, but I was determined to beat this guy. I was so determined to beat him that in my free time, I was chain smoking metal one hitters at the computer playing online chess instead of fucking hot girls. Then I started to beat the Jew occasionally. Not by outsmarting him, but by being less retarded than him. I was getting okay, on chess.com my peak elo was like 1500. I was on the trajectory to becoming the world champion. Then I started to win every game with my dear friend, and then one day the Jew refused to play chess with me at all. His ego couldn't handle the fact that his former whipping boy had surpassed him in chess. I still enjoyed online chess, but my interest in the game fizzled with the loss of my irl chess partner, and I also got soft because I started playing against retard level AI on my smart phone... my current elo on chess.com is like 1000 and I'm no longer a contender
but Othello... I've literally only lost one game of Othello in my life, and I was also the Othello/Reversi champion on Boris Poker, nobody else is in my universe.
Black Friday killed or at least seriously wounded poker. If there had been no Black Friday, poker would still be thriving.
Socialism is the transitional period of capitalism being taken over by Communism.
wow! high price to pay to become good at chess
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