Which one is better Backgammon or chess?

Question

Which one is better Backgammon or chess?

Answer 1

Chess.

Answer 2

It's hard to compare the games. Chess is a perfect information game.. and thus the game is ALWAYS won by the player who has made the (most) optimal move every turn.. Backgammon.. which is the older of the 2 games..contains an element of luck via the dice. A player can make the optimal move every turn and still lose because of the randomness of the dice. I  prefer Chess (although I prefer XiangQi).. because when I lose I can learn from mistakes in the game. In Backgammon.. it's generally more difficult to determine which moves were mistake and which moves were poor because of the luck of the dice.

Answer 3

Backgammon!!!  Chess is boorrrrrinnnggg and I don't even know how to play it!  It's too hard!!!  :))))

Answer 4

i would have to say that chess is more challenging. a friend who considered himself a good backgammon player once show me how to play (i have since forgotten) and i beat him the first and only time i played. this could never happen in chess.

Answer 5

Chess all the way!

Answer 6

chess! haha

i dont even know how to play backgammon....

Answer 7

Backgammon does require some degree of skill, but it's not a game of pure skill the way chess is.

In backgammon, having a superior knowledge of dice probability, for example,  will pretty much ensure that you win the majority of your games if you play enough.  Anyone can luck out and win a game here or there, but over extended play, good players will beat poor players the vast majority of the time, regardless of how the dice turn up.

Chess, again, is a game of pure skill...no luck or chance is really involved.  

Both games are fun... the one clear advantage backgammon has over chess is that it's a much faster game (a typical game lasts about 5-7 minutes.  So you can play a lot of games in a short period of time.

But in terms of the skill required to be good at it, there's no question chess is at a much higher level.