An announcement of the New in Chess magazine offered chess players to try their luck playing cards. The most important poker school has offered to reveal its secrets to chess players because they think that the virtues of patience, discipline and analysis give them an advantage over their opponents.

The most famous maestros sustain that poker is just another way to play chess. Chess players have realized that what their sport doesn’t give them, they can get from cards; money, lots of money. In fact, the effort is less and the gaining is clearly superior. There are many famous chess players that have chosen to use their skills in the game of poker.

However, the thing that gave this game the final impulse, is the impact that the online poker game has had. In the last four or five years it has managed to help chess players to overcome what had kept them away from poker tables: shyness. Now, behind the computer screen, everything turns out to be much easier.

The truth is that not only money has encouraged these sportsmen to play poker, but the fact that cards have been traditionally their allies when it comes to clear their heads and shake their neurons. It’s common that when they finish a game of chess, players share a game of mus or bridge.