If we are counting card games (no longer games of perfect information), then I think poker is also more popular than chess in the USA. Poker can mean many
games of course, but maybe hold-em alone is still more popular than chess. Most of the games are illegal, of course.
David Fotland wrote:
Bridge is also far more popular than chess in the USA.
-----Original Message-----
From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-
boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Mark Boon
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 7:07 AM
To: computer-go
Subject: Re: [computer-go] Re: GCP on ICGA Events 2009 in Pamplona
On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Thomas Lavergne wrote:
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
Sorry if I caused confusion, I didn't mean to count those as Chess-
players. I just stated that to show that despite large population-
numbers in say China, most of those people play Xiang-Qi rather than
Wei-Qi.
This in contrast to a large country like Russia where I believe Chess
is by far the most popular. In Holland however, Chess comes only at
third place (or maybe even lower) after Bridge and Draughts.
Mark
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