That's a pretty personal preference. I mean, the reason I love chess is because it's entirely about skill and because you cannot get screwed by random chance. Chess has survived as one of the world's most popular games for hundreds of years for a reason too, which says that it's probably not boringly predictable to at least some segment of the human race.
You can argue that the only reason people still play it is that it's not been solved, but then, checkers has been solved and lots of people enjoy checkers.
--matt
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