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Should Chess Be Played In Casinos?

Gambling, perhaps the world's oldest past time, has always blessed those of us who are gifted with higher social distinction, higher intelligence, and a far greater practical understanding of our 'shared' world with a most charming avenue to fatten our pockets just a little more at the expense of the grotesquely unintelligent, superstitious, or otherwise oafish peasants that have incestuously plagued our graceful company since the dawn of time.

Now, I certainly don't claim to be a fan of sporting events....though I do find it intensely amusing when those baseball animals brawl one another or perhaps a cluster of degenerate European soccer enthusiasts burns down part of their own city in celebration of the final GOOOOOOAAL (for me at least it's the riot that brings the real entertainment)! Sports have certainly given a vast element of the post-soldiery/slave/peasant class of what remains from feudal Europe an adequate outlet to vent the rage and bloodlust that still poisons their vulgar bloodlines since the dawn of the new Socialized-Democratic-Pussy-State that governs most of Europe has tireless tried to ensure that a war between nations never occurs again....Good Luck with that, FRANCE AND GERMANY!!!....a quixotically noble but mostly amusingly UNACHIEVABLE goal!...........but I digress.

The point I am making is that I make a small fortune every year from betting on sports. How do I do it?? Well, unlike those deranged baseball, soccer, american football, or basketball fans who rely on superstition and possibly ghosts to lead their teams to victory, I use a little thing called MATH!!! Hence, I look for trends through the aid of a little thing called a COMPUTER PROGRAM....something those Icelandic Neanderthals probably call a "number witch" but maybe that's only what they call a calculator! It's actually surprisingly easy to make money on sports betting.....you just have to have a brain and know how to use it!

Hence, I would like to play chess in casinos for real money. I'm thinking something just like on lichess except at a casino. In my vision there would be computers and you'd use a mouse as opposed to a real chess set just to make it cleaner without pieces flying around or something....and the winner either on checkmate or time wins the game. It would also be all Open Section but regulated so that you can't have some GM just sitting anonymously at a computer and winning all the money....but that's again part of the fun and dynamic of this....so I don't exactly know what it would look like..But, whatever the final product would look like, the bottom line is that I WANT CHESS IN CASINOS!! Who's with me!! Let's email some Senators and Representatives and see if we can make a REAL DIFFERENCE in our community and get this done by Christmas!!!
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Everything offered at casinos has a large element of randomness (poker, blackjack, roulette, slots, craps are all about probability). The only random thing in a game of chess is whether you play white or black. For that reason I don't see why casinos should (or would want to) include chess.
@mCoombes314
The house would have to take like 10% of every transaction or something like that. Also, Poker is not just random chance. Of course, chess is far less a game of chance, but the way I see it Chess would be played very similar in style to poker. Instead a poker table, it would be a chess table!
Tons of chance in chess.
Begins with horizon, where even best computers cant foresee all consequences of moves made early on in the gayme.
Between average humans, especially when of comparable strength, looking maybe 4-5 moves ahead, you might just as well flip a 3-sided coin.
Well, one could run some bets, for example, bishop making a check in the movement 38#, or "White will checkmate Black with a queen + a tower, or with a tower and a bishop" of course resigning is forbidden in a supposed casino-chess parameters.

There are some many possibilities, similar to betting in a hippodrome.
Casinos and gambling are illegal almost everywhere in the world. Chess is legal almost everywhere in the world. If chess starts to be played in casinos, chess will be quickly banned in every place in the world where casinos and gambling are illegal.
To be like a casino, Lichess can introduce tokens which can be bought with real money and exchanged back to real money. Lichess can make money from the difference between the high selling price and low buying price.
Then the two players who play each other can bet the tokens before the game starts. If game is draw, both players get their tokens back. If a game is decisive, the player who wins gets the tokens of both players. Also tokens can be used as entry fees to tournaments and be paid to the winners.

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