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"Starcraft is like high-speed chess." Ok, but what's really like high-speed chess is... speed chess, played with a chess clock. Five minute chess, three minute
by slm_HN 12y ago
"Starcraft is like high-speed chess."
Ok, but what's really like high-speed chess is... speed chess, played with a chess clock. Five minute chess, three minute chess and even one minute chess, those are all like high-speed chess.
- Selfcommit 12y agoEven chess with a chess clock is like a walk in the park compared to SC2. In an average game,the first 5 minutes has already decided the match.
- a8000 12y agoThat is not true at all, the first five minutes will decide most of the early/mid game strategy. But if the build orders are executed flawlessly the match is far from decided at this point.
- iopq 12y agothe problem with that is: Starcraft is really like playing chess on several boards for time and if you run out of time for a move your opponent can make two in a row this is because you need to be at several locations at once