Is chess the Only 100% skill based game?

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Crazychessplaya wrote:

Certainly not! Old threads are to be treasured.

I fail to see how old threads cannot be "treasured" without being bumped.

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Any board game but Scrabble?

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Darts is highly skill-based if you ask me.

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Diplomacy?

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my chess pieces will nor drag or drop or even if i highlight piece and square i want piece to move to, it movesback if it moves at all.  Can anyone help?

Regards 

Peter

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There is a lot of luck in internet chess.  For example, your opponent's cat may jump on his keyboard and make a bad move for him (or a brilliantly good move!).  I've been interrupted by phone calls on several occasions and ended up losing on time.  My kids constantly distract me or demand to use the computer (ostensibly for homework, but i know that they just want to watch Youtube videos).  once my wife yelled at me to stop playing chess and come down for dinner or else she would disable my chess.com account.  I did manage to finish the game, but lost because of the distraction (or at least that's what I claim).

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I've also clicked on the wrong square and then clicked "confirm" before realizing that I clicked on the wrong square.  This has happened to me dozens of times.  Bad luck in my view.  Others have attributed to poor mouse control skills.

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That's just lack of concentration which can be fixed, therefore not luck.

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Zigwurst wrote:

That's just lack of concentration which can be fixed...

Do you have any tips?

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Chess is NOT 100% skill. Sometimes you lose a game just because of the opening of your opponent( for example a prepared line), even if you are the better chess player.. .

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If you play an opening incorrectly then that just shows lack of skill.

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No you Can not say it like that. Its no skill to learn a opening, everybody can do it. Also, when you play a game against a weaker opponent and you know that you would beat him in all openings he plays except one opening, then you can not say that the weaker player, who will win something like 1/10 games has more skill in chess, just because he wins a game in the only opening he was able to win( for example a prepared line which is very Sharp and not easy to find the right moves on the board.)

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If the game allows you to unintentionally do the "best" move, at any given time, it is not 100% skill based.

I guess, the only thing that is pure skill based are natural sciences, since there is only one "right", and an infinite number of "wrongs"...

 

@SouthWestRacingNews, are you by any chance a 1st Semester Economics student, doing your first Game-Theory course?^^

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Flirting is a demanding skill especially if you're ugly.

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cornbeefhashvili wrote:

Flirting is a demanding skill especially if you're ugly.

Fortunately there is a skill enhancing factor, called "being drunk".

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No. Alcohol does not increase flirting skill, but it does lead to bad decisions and interesting stories. Cool

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No it isn't

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Forum trolling is pretty skill-based.

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Slapjack.

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fieldhockey is too