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Eh. I don’t care about the chess world champions. I’m not playing them. RTS games suffer a similar problem. Until you become extremely proficient, you have bas
by fauxpause_ 3y ago
Eh. I don’t care about the chess world champions. I’m not playing them. RTS games suffer a similar problem.
Until you become extremely proficient, you have basically no room to use novel strategies. You will lose to people with better execution on established strategies. And so you don’t do anything but grind execution and it’s pretty boring.
Chess isn’t quite this bad, but I find it pretty boring after a while.
- eitally 3y agoThe flip side to your comment, though, is that chess can be highly entertaining for people just getting started, who neither know any established openings or play lines, nor are playing against opponents who do... which describes the vast majority of newcomers to the game. I would argue that you can get to approaching 1500 ELO without really knowing any theory at all, and just focusing on what "feels" like appropriate control of the board & game dynamics... and again, the vast majority of casual players will likely never move beyond that. But it's still fun, especially when they're able to challenge friends between classes to 3 or 5 minute matches.
- fauxpause_ 3y agoI agree. Novice chess is great. Especially with local peers. I find it loses its appeal pretty quick when you start playing in a system like lichess however. Once you stop progressing quickly which is probably around a month or three of interested play. That may not hold if it’s an established form of social competition where you can earn prestige by being good at it within your local peer group. It would be nice to see more intellectual challenges take that role among young people.