On Jul 5, 8:50 am, Zero wrote:
HI,

I noticed that people who are good at chess are also good at
backgammon and poker. And people that are generally good at one of
the three games and also good at another as well.

Is there a correlation between the games? For example, Dan Harrington
and Howard Lederer are both good poker players. But they are also
high rated chess players. Harrington has a 2300+ USCF chess rating
and Lederer also has a 1951 USCF chess rating (though both players are
inactive).

Also a lot of poker players are also good at backgammon.

Is there a correlation? Chess is all skill and no luck. I guess
backgammon is in the middle with skill and some luck (from dice) and
poker has more luck than skill.

Poker, backgammon, bridge, blackjack counting, and gin are likely
highly correlated (with the exception that bridge and gin require that
you be able to count down a deck to play at the highest levels and in
blackjack ideally you can count down two or more). Chess requires a
large amount of memorization of historical play that isn't really
similar to poker at all. I'd say it's much more closely related to
the other oppositional search 2-player board games than to poker.