steven0461 comments on Can chess be a game of luck? - Less Wrong

-2 Post author: Rune 06 July 2009 03:08AM

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Comment author: steven0461 06 July 2009 10:23:33PM 0 points [-]

It depends -- in the limit where blinds are zero, you only call with aces and win 80% of the time. For more realistic values you may well be right.

(I had a truly marvelous bit about luck in chess in an unposted draft. Now I'll probably throw that bit away.)