Is Monopoly better than Chess?

Originally posted by Romanticus
I wonder what brought up this question 😕

I won all 4 games I played today

Originally posted by Emashi
Monopoly is a luck based game, not like chess.


So chess > monopoly

Yes, Chess is a game of skill

monopoly: of craft cunning and chance

So chess illuminates our understanding of being alive.

Just ask yourself why does one game, alone among the thousands of games played throughout human history, not only survive but thrive within every culture it touches? What is it about 32 pieces, moving about 64 light & dark squares, that has captivated us for a millenium? Why has it driven some of its greatest players (like Paul Morphy) into paranoia or madness, yet is venerated as a powerful toolbox for the mind?
You want to compare monopoly?
In chess, The rules and the pieces have served as metaphors for society, influencing military strategy, math, artificial intelligence, and literature. It has been condemned as the devil's game by Popes, Imams, and Rabbis -- and praised as a guide to proper living by other Popes, Imams, and Rabbis.
( Marcel Duchamp was so absorbed in the game that he ignored his wife on their honeymoon -- no surprise for at least one of our RHP members. Caliph Muhammad al-Amin lost his throne -- and his head -- attempting to checkmate a courtier. Ben Franklin used the game in Paris and London as a cover for his secret diplomacy with the French. Hmmm. . I cannot recall tales like these about. . . monopoly.)

And chess certainly is the most romantic of all games.
You talk about which is more popular, chess or monopoly??

"Chess" : the images begin to flicker in the mind:

GM Kronsteen masterminds the destruction of James Bond over a chessboard in "From Russia with Love."
Alice adventures through the Looking Glass and enounters The Red Queen.
Black-cowled Death hunched over a chessboard plays against the Crusader in "The Seventh Seal" --

Chess is all around us in life, even when we're not Here.