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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 sk
by 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 agoyes 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 agoI always thought of chess as pattern recognition. But I guess that's kind of a subset of memorization.
- alexjeffrey 12y agoa 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.