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What other games, like chess, are 100% skill? (Not video games or athletic games, intellectual games.)?

All card games have luck in them. All games that use dice have luck in them. Chess is probably the best example of a theoretically 100% skill intellectual game. I guess checkers is an example also so don't bother mentioning checkers. Checkers is lame compared to chess anyway, not complex enough. Don't bother mentioning video games or sports because I'm not looking for those kinds of games. Whoever gives the best example, in my opinion, will get the best answer. Okay I meant all card games where you deal cards out, which is most of them, have luck involved.

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I don't know
How about Scrabble?
Go also i think white has a slight advantage in chess - so it's probably 99.999 percent skill.
What about the board game "Risk"?
Go -- the Japanese equivalent of Chess, but much more interesting, complex and abstract. I've been playing Go for half my life, it's the best board game I know of. Yahoo Games has on-line Go playing. You can even learn how to play Go there. It's easy to learn but takes a lifetime to master. You will want to buy books on Go, such as "Go Proverbs" or "Go Problems for Beginners" (Ishi Press, I think)
dominos
busket ball.
the memory card game ... all you have to do is remember where each card is after flipping them over ... polish war card game ... you have to guess whether your unseen card is higher or lower than the visible card of your opponent ... not to forget mah johng or sudoku
if you are clever and you want a clever game try the japan game sudoku.
Someone else mentioned Go - I would second the notion that this really is a game of skill. I would say that Scrabble has a lot of skill involved, but there is an element of luck in which tiles you draw. You might be an expert wordsmith and know how to use the board, but you can still lose if your opponent draws the right letter to use at the right time. Mah jong is similar is that there is strategy but also luck of the draw. Also, Chinese chess is a game of skill and strategy. Mancala is also a game of skill and strategy. Even tic-tac-toe requires skill although i think it has been proven that the first player should be able to never lose. There are some card games that don't have luck (or randomness) built into them - like a game where each player has the same hand and you take turns playing a card, and whoever plays the higher card in that round wins the trick, and the object is to win the most tricks. Each person starts out with the same stuff, and you know where every card is. The board game Stratego requires some strategy and a good memory - again, there is no randomness - you know what you have and what your opponent has to start with, but you don't know where they are placing their pieces. The simple game of lines-and-boxes is also a great strategy game.
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Go would be the most obvious example. Someone else already mentioned "Chinese Chess" (XiangQi), which is very similar to Chess in some respects, but more reliant on tactics and less on pawn structures. I actually like XiangQi better than Chess, but there just aren't places to play. Shogi is Japanese Chess. I haven't tried it, but I've heard that the most unique thing about it is that the pieces aren't colored. Both sides use the same pieces, and you can tell who owns the piece by what direction it's facing. Then, when you capture an opponent's piece, you can put it back down on the board later facing the direction for you to own it. So theoretically, you'll rarely have positions with low numbers of pieces. Sounds confusing, and would require some degree of skill. Checkers isn't as lame as most people seem to think. The rules may be simpler than Chess, but I refuse to discount it altogether, despite being a Chess player. Also, there are other "simple" mainstream games like Connect Four, Othello (Reversi), Mancala, etc.