Compared to other board games, how would you rank chess? The hardest board game, second hardest? One of the easier board games?

Munchkins is the hardest board game.

it is as hard as exploring the universe in a limted time.

Second hardest, just behind checkers. 

I could probably get banned for that comment around these parts.

I'd like to see someone rate chess as "one of the easier board games".

I honestly have to question how hard board games are, that are a combination of luck and skill. Certainly a skill game like chess is difficult, but after learning to play it well, you have a really good chance to win most of the time, or atleast not to lose. In games of luck and skill (backgammon and risk, are really cool) it can be harder to win as consistently as you could in chess, simply because 50% of the time, things aren't going to work in your favor and there aren't really any draws, if played out.

the hardest game is lottery.Nobody,no machine in history or alive has ever found any rule in it to play against the nature.

Depending upon the payoff, you could play many set of numbers and greatly increase your odds, for what results in a much smaller prize, but you could get lucky and do this several times in a row and then stop. Poker is a better option though. Men are far easier to exploit than nature.

Kill...steal...stab?  It doesn't sound like a friendly game.

How many board games have strict time controls? I can't think of any off hand. Playing a fast game of chess, say 3-5-10 minute blitz, keeping track of 64 squares and pieces that move in different ways, it's crazy hard not to lose to a tactic!

It's a trivial game: develop your pieces, seize the open files and outposts, mate the enemy king. QED

You know what else is easy? Golf. You just drive the ball a long way down the fairway, hit an iron shot onto the green and close to the hole, then putt the ball into the hole. QED

Scattergories is a tough time controlled game. It has some elements of luck and a good bit of skill too. It is a cool game.

I was thinking about this a few days ago... it's really not that hard of a game... it just seems that the mistakes are so easy to come by

Go #1 chess #2.

Conflagration_Planet wrote:

Go #1 chess #2

Chess is far more intricate and difficult to master. I picked up on how to play go relatively well in a short time. For me there is no comparison and no way chess is second. I'd pick tic tac toe before go, simply because it is so hard to win.

some games are not hard but just take a long time risk, monopoly, axis and allies

 The chance to win in lottery is so small than any other game.No strategy could even be applied to even draw.

Chess, once you get the hang of it, isn't really that difficult.

The hard part comes in winning consistently.

Go has many orders of magnitude more possible moves.

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