Is there such thing as "luck" in chess?

it depends on the level of the players playing

at the below 1000 elo level, luck can be considered often a major factor of the game (it isn't), especially if you're talking about salty 200s who lose because they took too many courses on how to blunder their queen.

at the higher level, most players know luck does not necessarily exist at all in chess, unless your opponent turns up late to an otb competition and loses the game on time 💀

1450 = good
look at my stats

luck is only involved when you paired with a bad chess player.

especially theory but once your out of that your on your own sometimes you can get lucky in a completely dead lost position and have your opponent hang something other times you can make it complicated and get them to blunder

no the higher skilled the less luck is random but higher rated players usually know how to get luckier (or swindle )

skill beats luck, luck is a concept not a proven fact it's a cliche that you are stale enough to believe.

There is such a think as luck in chess if you consider the whole context of external matters that affect the game. The game itself, however, is as close to 100% skill (more often lack thereof) as possible. The weaker the player, however, the more the game appears to be decided by luck.

actually its skill with a tad bit of getting lucky unfortunately at least for humans unless you don't guess every single move every single game or get tunnel vision then sure chess doesn't involve luck

Two gentlemen got some or all their posts deleted. Did they get muted? probably deserved

Just back after a months-long ban and he's gone again. This time he's taken someone with him.

He took dio

Dio was asking for it. Incidentally he bragged just yesterday how he knows the rules perfectly and has never been muted. Maybe this serves a lesson for both to not take up half the discussion for personal disputes.

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He usually doesn't get muted maybe a mod saw that and staff decided to get petty

What happened here?

Dio got muted too?
That's unfortunate. Pun not intended.
Dio is very hard on trolling people.
And deserves more credit for it. Is under-appreciated.
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Regarding 'luck'' in chess ... well its time to make another post.

YESSIR, he was mid, L, trolls suck tho. If you're seeing this on alt account Dio, change your ways pls.

Give us context if you're too slow too understand that, then you're the young one.

He's not banned, I checked his account

For certain definitions of 'luck' and of 'chess' what is the strongest case for there being no 'luck' in chess.
First - try to think of situations outside chess where there's 'no luck involved'.
Various mathematical situations come to mind.
Consider a sum. 35 + 36. Adds up to 61.
Mathematics. Elementary mathematics.
The fact that the sum is 61 isn't 'lucky'. Its simply a fact.
Now consider chess positions as 'mathematical situations'.
If a position has a mate in five for the side to move - that again is not 'luck' that that situation exists. If we regard the position as a mathematcial situation.
Just a position. White and black pieces. Chessboard.
Or - a chess position as data.
In various math and data situations there's no luck involved.
They just objectively 'are'.
Somebody got paid because they caused the position to occur?
The position itself can't be 'paid'.
The number pi can't be paid. You can't do it.
It can't suffer bereavement. Or have a big dentist's bill.
Pi itself has no subjectives. It is what it is. With no spinach.
So is a program for a computer.
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Same with a chess 'position'.
So there's an argument for 'no luck in chess'
if the word 'chess' is simply regarded as referring to a big array of chess positions.
Is that what Dio was trying to suggest? I'm not sure.