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How is the involved cognitive and manual labour virtual. eSports are no more virtual competitions than chess.

• alexjeffrey 12y ago
  in my mind, eSports is psychological/dexterical, and chess is psychological/memorization (openings). The challenge is getting to the point where the world at large considers these types of competition to be equally valid to physical/athletic ones.
  • TheMakeA 12y ago
    There is a lot of memorization in eSports too. Remember where all the players hide in Counter Strike, remember build orders (openings) in StarCraft, remember skill and item orders in Dota clones.
    • alexjeffrey 12y ago
      yes actually you're right - maybe not as much as in chess due to the depth and variation involved in openings, but still a hell of a lot.
      • ASneakyFox 12y ago
        I always thought of chess as pattern recognition. But I guess that's kind of a subset of memorization.
        • alexjeffrey 12y ago
          a lot of the opening of chess is playing memorized counters to different plays that have been extensively studied - you could fill a library with books dedicated to chess openings, explaining why a particular move is good against another.