poker is all based on statistics and game theory, similar to wl

This, and in the long run luck plays an insignificant role in poker.

Early game is closer to chess, but mid and late game is closer to poker.

You guys seem to miss the key characteristic here. Information.

Warlight is at all similar to chess only with no fog, 0% luck, straight round. Chess is a compleat information game. Any game that gives you less then all required information is not like chess.

Warlight is never similar to poker. You don't have stakes. Can't play poker without stakes. Poker is largely based on psychology. Luck is irrelevant. Game theory is only important as far as it allows you to know wheter your hand is good or bad. Psychology is the key aspect.
WL would be like poker with heavy fog, random distribution settings. It would have to have some kind of stakes though. Can't bluff without stakes.

As I said earlier, in most cases Warlight is like bridge. It is a deduced information game.

Artham, aren't the stakes bonuses, territories and stacks?

It always rings false for me when people describe chess as complete information. A player does not necessarily know the lines his opponent is strong in, or has prepared, or has a surprise weapon or whether theyre sleepy today, so games with a lot of calculations will lead to an easier victory.

Sounds like I should learn to play bridge. To the old folks home!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information - as for information and chess

Bonuses, territories and stacks aren't stakes. They don't matter after the game is ended. Stakes need to give a motivation to surrender. You have no such motivation in warlight (other then wasteing time).

Shows what I know about poker. So if you play poker and dont use real money you have to use different strategies to win? That doesn't sounds right...

Chess is a compleat information game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete_information.

=P

You are right. My mistake was in translation :).


As for bridge - it's by far the best game Ive ever played and I would reccomend it to anybyody, so off you go to your folks ;)

Chess is closer to wl in terms of tha games (not the play), bc when you in poker allways play for yourself you can in wl and chess play on teams (even or uneven)play ffa and play 1v1.

How can you team and FFA in chess? If you can (which I doubt), then I'd love to do that :)

You can team and FFA in chess ;)

I heard one time of a four-player-chess-board. I found too something in wiki:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-handed_chess

Cool. I'll definitely buy a board like that :)

what about this ones too arun:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortress_chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forchess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatrochess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Man_Chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-player_chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-Chess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-dimensional_chess

warlight is most like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_chess if there is normal fog