Chess is a game of Luck. Change my mind.

I guess every game like this has a tiny amount of luck in simply the fact that you are playing another human being. Your opponent could "luckily" have a real world emergency and you end up winning because of this despite a perhaps large difference in skill. Hopefully this is a rather rare occurrence.

Chess is a game of Luck. Change my mind.
No, it isn't about luck. Rather it is about the player who is first to grab the opportunity made by opponent's blunder.

Short term luck is an important factor. On the long run it's not

its only a game of luck if you're bad.

As with life in general, you create your own luck.

@Le_Patzer83 stahp, this analogy to life hurts xd

@Akarsh_2010 said in #1:

yes.
chess depends on a lot of factors(not just luck).

@HeylithaV said in #17:

yes.
chess depends on a lot of factors(not just luck).
luck alone would be enough tho..

here my opinion. sure, luck can save u sometimes, but sometimes it won't. quite the bad idea to rely on something so uncontrollable

Chess is not a game of luck. You need to have skill to win the game. Okay, sometimes people might accidently make blunders or people might lose time, but chess is not a game of luck.

yeah it's kind of like Niemann, he got lucky or something, but now he is drifting down to his true rating.