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sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
April 26 2013 15:27 GMT
#21
the diffrence between chess and bw/sc2 is that it isn't artificially hinderd by mechaniques speaking from a point of strategy, which in sc is really strict when you get to a high level.
The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
Charlie.Sheen
Profile Joined March 2013
662 Posts
Last Edited: 2013-04-26 15:34:35
April 26 2013 15:28 GMT
#22
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 in game theory means you don't have full information about current state of the game, not future moves.

In SC, you don't know if your opponent has a dark shrine or not, that's current state of the game.

In chess, you know exactly where every piece is at right now, so you can deduce a set for possible next moves from opponent. In SC, you can't deduce that exact set.
Garnet
Profile Blog Joined February 2006
Vietnam9036 Posts
April 26 2013 15:33 GMT
#23
TvT is a little like Go.
Zocat
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2229 Posts
April 26 2013 15:34 GMT
#24
On April 27 2013 00:18 eScaper-tsunami wrote:
Neither because both go and chess have a finite of moves you can compute.


SC2 also only has a number of finite moves.
And with current computation power we can compute neither SC2 nor Go (and Chess only endgame iirc).
niteReloaded
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Croatia5282 Posts
April 26 2013 15:35 GMT
#25
On April 27 2013 00:16 Black[CAT] wrote:
More like blind-folded boxing.

rofl ^.^
E.L.V.I.S
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium458 Posts
April 26 2013 15:41 GMT
#26
I played as much go as I played starcraft and starcraft is just easy bullshit compared to go, you can't compare those two games
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Yorke
Profile Joined November 2010
England881 Posts
April 26 2013 15:41 GMT
#27
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.

Why would you comment on something if you clearly have no idea what you're talking about, I don't understand.
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Dangermousecatdog
Profile Joined December 2010
United Kingdom7084 Posts
April 26 2013 15:42 GMT
#28
Neither, it is so far removed from chess or go, you might as wel ask whether sc2 is more like a cat or dog.
agahamsorr0w
Profile Joined April 2011
Netherlands359 Posts
April 26 2013 15:44 GMT
#29
this discussion again? sc2 is sc2....
E.L.V.I.S
Profile Joined April 2011
Belgium458 Posts
April 26 2013 15:44 GMT
#30
On April 27 2013 00:42 Dangermousecatdog wrote:
Neither, it is so far removed from chess or go, you might as wel ask whether sc2 is more like a cat or dog.

I'd go for cat x)
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Markwerf
Profile Joined March 2010
Netherlands3728 Posts
April 26 2013 15:44 GMT
#31
Chess is indeed complete information but many sort of think that means there is absolutely no guessing or predicting what your opponent will do.
Time is the limiting resource really for what moves you can consider so there is definately some guessing as to what your opponent will do as a focussed search for good moves tends to be more fruitful than a board search. Chess computers basically narrow down the search by heuristics and so do humans.
That also means there is some luck factor in predicting what sort of opening your opponet will do. I've heard chess pro's say they were lucky in correctly predicting opening X their opponent would do and then countering it by studying a certain variant that they think will do well against it plus being more familiar in that situation. In a way it's slightly comparible to the mindgames going on in high level Box sc2.

Of course I agree with most others, comparison between RTS and boardgames is very limited in many aspects.
Ratix
Profile Joined November 2007
Italy36 Posts
April 26 2013 15:47 GMT
#32
On April 27 2013 00:26 AnomalySC2 wrote:
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 ^_^ ).



ahahah
Qwyn
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States2779 Posts
April 26 2013 15:49 GMT
#33
Not. At. All.

The real-time element makes worlds of difference. More than you can imagine. Everything you know and like about SC is that way because it is real-time.
"Think of the hysteria following the realization that they consciously consume babies and raise the dead people from their graves" - N0
delHospital
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Poland261 Posts
April 26 2013 15:50 GMT
#34
Go is much more strategy-oriented, chess is more about tactics. SC2 is like go, WC3 is like chess. Or whatever.
mewo
Profile Joined July 2011
United States221 Posts
April 26 2013 15:54 GMT
#35
I've really got it. it isn't at all like chess or go. It certainly isn't like poker; its hardly even a strategy game. Its like moving something really heavy, too heavy for any reasonable person to even try to shift. Every time you play you are trying to move this really heavy object and sometimes you shift it a bit more than the other guy and sometimes it falls on your foot. Ultimately all you have done is compared how well you can do something impossible to how well some other guy can.

Swift118
Profile Joined January 2012
United Kingdom335 Posts
April 26 2013 16:01 GMT
#36
Well I would say both game games have certain comparisons to sc2 in that they are competitive games and have elements of strategy, but that is where the similarities end. I like RTS games and its a great test of many skills: mechanics, strategy, determination and reactions. Chess is a pure strategy game that has been developed for centuries and has had genius level minds playing it over the years.

mcc
Profile Joined October 2010
Czech Republic4646 Posts
April 26 2013 16:02 GMT
#37
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.

That is not what game of incomplete information means.
llIH
Profile Joined June 2011
Norway2147 Posts
April 26 2013 16:03 GMT
#38
Chess for sure
rEalGuapo
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany832 Posts
April 26 2013 16:09 GMT
#39
Is grey more like 7 or orange juice?
c0ldfusion
Profile Joined October 2010
United States8293 Posts
April 26 2013 16:10 GMT
#40
I've always thought that SC2 has elements of both go and chess (among other games as everyone has pointed out).

The units do not all behave homogeneously and positioning matters a great detail. In that regard it's like chess.
On the other hand, on a larger scale, carving out the map and controlling territories is akin to strategies in go.
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