What are the factors that influence the points for winning/losing a game?

[worldfamous]

(11-26-2012 09:12 PM)garcia1000 Wrote:  Poker, a vastly worse game, is much more popular, because its variance means that people don't know their rating in the short to medium term.

Vastly worse game? Vastly different game. And your stats are wrong. In the US, an estimated 15% of Americans play chess on a regular basis, while 13% play poker. There is an even larger gap for the rest of the world. To paraphrase something you posted earlier, are you just throwing out words?