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Chess and go are two diametrical strategic board games. In chess, at the beginning of the game it is very easy to clearly foresee how the game will develop in the next few rounds. Simply, the game is not complex at the beginning, while in more later stages it becomes almost impossible to clearly foresee the consequences of each actions. In GO, on the other hand, there is not a limited set of very rigid rules to follow at the beginning, though there are some guidelines that ought to be followed. In more advances stages, instead, intuition is substituted by clear logic of how one should move.
How would you define SC2 with regards to these two types of game? Is SC2 more like chess or GO? I'm led to think that it is more like chess. The fact that there are disparate build orders guides on google is a piece of evidence in favor of this hypothesis. In addition,style and intuition take over later in the game. Nevertheless, since new build orders are "discovered" even after months or years the release of the game (bisu's cannon/stargate vs. zerg in BW is an example that comes to my mind), I wonder whether SC2 is really like chess or not.
What's your opinion about this? Do you think a possible answer could be that SC2 is in the middle?
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SC2 is a game of incomplete information, and is probably very unlike both games.
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it's more similar to Poker imo
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sc2 is more like bw/wc3. maybe strategy-wise, but its like comparing apples to protein shakes
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I agree with blackbird.
SC2 is a game of incomplete information and is therefore often compared to Poker. In fact, successful SC2 players are often also successful at Poker and vice-versa.
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On April 27 2013 00:10 Atlasy wrote:
it's more similar to Poker imo
This is probably a more accurate answer than go or chess
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It's more like starcraft bw and warcraft 3.
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It is more like guess who.
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It's not like either of them
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More like blind-folded boxing.
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Do you think a monster truck is more like a plane or more like a ship? I don't care dude. I'm off, driving my monster truck.
I wonder whether SC2 is really like chess or not.
Round based vs. real time, limited informaton vs whole visible chess field.. too much difference to seriously compare.
In the end apple are apples.
In short: the question makes no sense.
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Neither because both go and chess have a finite of moves you can compute.
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Out of these two options, Go is a better comparison, just look at TvT, that's exactly a Go game. And chess is just too simple compared to Go or starcraft.
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I always consider SC more like chess mostly because in chess depending if you use Black or White pieces you could play aggressive or defensive, there many allin strats in chess that if your opponent dont anticipate you die, many openings that may give you advantage in the late or mid game, and basically observation and anticipation is the key to win, like I consider is the same in SC.
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Starcraft is more like Risk.
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On April 27 2013 00:05 blackbrrd wrote:
SC2 is a game of incomplete information, and is probably very unlike both games.
So is Chess. You dont know what moves your opponent will do, same as in SC2.
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Wow surprised by the responses
Guessing none are serious chess or go players
Yes there are differences board games being turn based while RTS games being not but the similarities in the game game design are numerous.
Chess is about using all the different "units" you have to kill your opponent's king. Certainly the unit use fits but SC2 has a vastly different goal
Go however is, I feel, very similar to SC2 at its core. Both put strong importance on board/map control to gain economy/points. You have similar importance place on timings - also in chess though I feel its stronger in go - and of course like chess you have different opening "build orders"
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On April 27 2013 00:24 Avean wrote:Show nested quote +On April 27 2013 00:05 blackbrrd wrote:
SC2 is a game of incomplete information, and is probably very unlike both games. So is Chess. You dont know what moves your opponent will do, same as in SC2.
incomplete information as you don't know ehre your opponents units are or what he's doing.
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It's like a mix of Poker, Chess, Boxing, Nascar (your skill comes from how well you control a piece of "machinery") and WWE (your personality means a LOT in sc2 ^_^ ).
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