Playing Chess for Money

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:09:25 +0000

Online casino’s, poker rooms, bookmakers, lottery & bingo sites are nothing new. However to my knowledge one of the oldest and most famous past-times has never been contested over the world wide web for money. What am I talking about?
Chess.
It launched at the end of June 2008 and its called ultimatecheckmate. com. Its tagline is “the future of competitive chess”.
Now chess tournaments to win cash prizes are nothing new and neither is playing for money threw correspondence chess but playing live chess for money over the internet as far as I’m aware has never been done before.
Could it be the future?
Poker became a global phenomenon in the last decade. Now there’s countless hours of TV devoted to it. Cable and Network programming. Its big business and intoxicating viewing.
Players are becoming celebrities and poker is no longer “that” game played in dimly lit smoked filled basements.
Poker is without a doubt the king of the mountain with Texas hold’em the crown jewels but one could argue that chess is the far superior game. You see poker isn’t just about skill, there’s the luck factor and to not sound like a bitter loser it doesn’t matter how good you are at poker, how many books you’ve read, how many hours you’ve put in or if you do everything right you still cant beat lady luck should she decide to rear her ugly head.
Chess however is pure skill. The best man (or woman) will always win and that’s how it should be.
If I played Roger Federer at tennis I’d get destroyed. I’d be lucky to get a single point off him. If I played a top chess grandmaster I’d get annihilated without my opponent even breaking a sweat but if I or anyone of the street played the top ranked poker player in the world I could beat them, they wouldn’t even be much of a favourite, all because of the luck factor.
Chess should be top of the mountain. it’s the vastly superior game and the ultimate battle of wits.
Playing for money isn’t technically gambling either as the definition of gambling is to play a game of chance and there is no chance in chess.
The question I have is this: Is playing chess for cash right or wrong? Does it add some spice to the battle or does it demean the spirit of the game? Should we leave the dollars, pounds and Euro’s out of it and just play for pride?
If your familiar with sky bet you’ll know there motto is “it matters more when there’s money on it!”.
I agree. I have a competitive nature but bragging rites is not enough for me. I say not that it matters more if there’s money on it but if there’s no money on it, who really cares. If there’s nothing to lose then what have you really gained.
The difference between winning and losing should mean something to you and if it doesn’t then why are you even playing in the first place. If you need some incentive to get you into that mindset put a big hand-full of your hard earned cash on it. Make things interesting.
There’s a line it fight club that goes “your never alive like you are in fight club”. I say your never alive like you are in a casino, or at the races, or playing poker or playing chess for cash.
You want to feel a rollercoaster of emotions? Withdraw a months wages and take it down a casino. Put two weeks pay on red at the roulette table and watch the dealer spin that ball. You’ll never be wider awake, you’ll never be more alive. You’ll be able to feel your heart pumping through your chest and your senses heightened. Either way a tidal wave of emotion is coming your way. The elation of winning or the despair of defeat. That’s emotion. that’s living in the moment . that’s being alive. It’s a drug but the effects are not synthetic, this is real.
Win and you’re a hero, lose and you’re a failure, an idiot, an addict. You’ll be worshipped or spat on over something you really had no control over.
Gambling addicts who sit around in group therapy, are they addicts or are they just the one’s who lost. Just think if the dice had turned the other way they’d be sitting on a tropical island. People wouldn’t be looking down on them then would they. Notice you don’t ever see a gamblers anonymous meeting filled with men and women in flashy designer clothes and expensive jewellery. You’ve only got a problem if you lost.
But of course playing chess for money is something completely different as its about skill though it can invoke the same genuine emotions and this time the difference between winning and losing is 100% in your hands. You can work on your game, become a student of the sport. To hell with lady luck, chess rewards talent and ability, something that can be nurtured.
Once you think your ready you’ll need to test yourself, see how good you really are and there’s only one way and currently one place to do it.
Playing for the sake of playing is one thing but lets see how good you are when you’ve put your own money on the line. That’s what will separate the men from the boys.
Should we compete for money or does it devalue the game. I think it adds to the challenge and I’ve never been more excited about chess then since I’ve started competing for money but I can understand why others think its morally wrong and a cancer to the game they love. I’ve posted this question on chessforums. org and would love to hear other’s points of view.
If you fancy a game of chess meet me on Ultimate Checkmate. My username is BVBVBV. They’ll have to be some money on it though. Now I’ve played for cash not playing for money just seems meaningless.
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Casino Games: 2 Mythical Ways to Lose Cash

admin — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:03:21 +0000

I giocatori sono costantemente alla ricerca di modi per battere il casinò attraverso lo sviluppo di teorie e metodi per capovolgere le probabilità dalla loro parte. Here we look at the various game systems, reliability and efficiency, or rather ineffectivity. I remember that gambling is a sport, an enjoyable hobby to spend your time, a chess game with fate, if you can. The less control you have over the game, more relaxed and light of the game is because there is nothing you can do about it, just a matter of luck.
In this way the theories on how to beat the casinos are born, and let me tell you this, based on nothing. This is simply an attempt to gain control of a game that the main purpose is the lack of it.
1) One of the most common ways the game is to bet on an event that has not happened in an instant. According to this myth, one that has not happened recently is late and therefore more likely to occur. This error is known as the "player". An example of this method has been suspended for three reds in roulette and betting on black. This method is happily encouraged by casino operators to understand how the sense of what works for their interests. Acting in accordance with the method, the players abandon common sense for a method that does not work, and reduce their chances of winning.
2) The only method that works and is not based on estimates of probability false cards in blackjack. This is the only way to get a long-term statistical advantage over the casino. Card counting works on the concept that high-value cards are good for the player, while the low value cards are evil. A count cards do not need a photographic memory, but only the ability to add and remove units from 1. Counting does not give the players automatically earn points on each hand. The advantage given by the number of the paper is the term that begins after about 400 hours of play.
Casinos do allow this?
The casino knows that no matter which system uses a player continues to win in the long term, and that is why casinos do not tolerate measurement cards. Counting cards is not illegal, but the Casino reserves the right to prevent players from playing in casinos, for whatever reason they choose.
The bottom line you can prove that the house retains its protected interest, even if there was a system that helps the game to win at casino gambling will not be allowed there. So long as you play in casinos, this means that there is a threat to it.
Gambling should not be an expensive hobby, with constant trips to Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Most online casinos offer many choices of gambling gambling short time at high rolling games. But when a player scores a breakthrough once-in-a-hobby, and a day-thing, ceases to be funny, and the uncertainty is more difficult to enjoy. If so, will do everything possible to minimize the luck factor, no matter how absurd and impractical, it can be. And if the situation worsens, seek professional help. Not worth losing your house or worse yet your family to gambling.

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