Re: Why is poker getting so much attention and not chess?


Louis Blair wrote:
> Liam Too wrote (31 Jan 2006 07:56:01 -0800):
>
> > It's the excitement of the game that differs poker
> > from chess. If chessplayers will be able to overcome
> > the presence of some noises, then chess is ready
> > for TV.
>
> _
> In Sam Sloan's book on Chinese Chess, he described
> the atmosphere of the game as being quite different
> from that at a European chess event. Evidently, there
> was a lot of crowd participation. Perhaps we need to
> be more like the Chinese.

But that is Chinese chess. I thought that it's different from the
regular chess.
We need to learn Chinese chess first and then go to China and
participate. I wonder if there's a Chinese poker?

.

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