Is this the only game that does turn based combat / strategy well?

Is this the only game that does turn based combat / strategy well?

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>white has a clear advantage.
no.

>he doesn't like realism in his vidya
Fag

>Since 1851, compiled statistics support this view; White consistently wins slightly more often than Black, usually scoring between 52 and 56 percent
why the fuck is this allowed

Chess is sort of like Nietzsche: the only real reason to read him is so you can convey to other people that you've read him. Likewise, I don't think anybody really likes Chess, I think people like the idea of liking Chess, and sometimes take that way too far.

>one shot kills

No thanks

That's just retarded. You may not like the game but it doesn't mean that everyone else is just pretending to like it

What? No, chess actually is fun. I enjoy it, at least.

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Just like real life

Chess is more of a cultural institution than a game, like how people talk about "rocket science," which is a largely solved problem. If there weren't this bizarre worship of chess as some sort of pinnacle of human ability, it would be treated similarly to Magic: The Gathering. Which some people do like, I used to like it, but nobody ever asks "is MTG the only game that does turn-based strategy well?" because that would be idiotic.

t. literal retard

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No

Yes.

>"rocket science," which is a largely solved problem.

Yeah? How are your 3D turbulent-flow combustion simulations going these days, user?

Nowhere fast, numerical simulation can't work. And yet a human-launched probe has left the solar system, depending on the breaks. For your part, how's the autism treating you?

I MISS YOU, FITZ

You seem like you've gone to great lengths to justify your decision to not learn to play chess, user.

Play me in Sparkchess.
Name is AlterEgo, main play area.
Lemme know when you challenge me so I can accept the right challenge.

>Chess is supposed to be the game of intellectuals
>current rank#1 is a giant manchild who throws fits when he loses to black
>world championship match was a dramafest
explain this shit

Should chess be taught to unborn fetuses? I'd like to imagine Leonardo da Vinci's mother did something like that.

WE

>I got two hydrogen atoms to fuse
>looks like nuclear fusion is a solved problem!

Like video games, the only people that put enough effort into being good enough for the world championships are massive autusts

It was all from the production side to up the entertainment value.

autism

No, seriously.
Play me.

It's all about "muh memorization" which is just fucking terrible and caters only to the autistic.

Play Fischer Random Chess instead
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess960

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WUZ

PvP is good but the campaign is truly lackluster. Map variety is 1/10.

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KANGS

where can I casually start playing chess and have some sort of ranking system going on? Any known sites/games?

GG, I mistook King for Queen and vice versa. Been way too long since I last played.
Not too shabby.

fite me IRL
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Sparkchess.

>being a young little shit
>dad teaching me chess kind of
>half paying attention until I was told any pawn that reaches the other end can turn into another piece
>thought that was the whole point of the game
>constantly sent my pawns out to slaughter
>Dad always put me in check
>Checkmate son
>See I still have a pawn on the board and argue that he could become a king one day
>Dad let me win for teaching him the power of potential

That was a weird day.

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hi there

this is actually a pretty neat sequence

looks like a china pro game or something

you'd see that too if you were rad like me

Call me a fuckin' weeb, but weiqi does turn based strategy at least as well (and in my opinion better).

Anyone been watching the FIDE championships this month?

Is everyone a Magnus fanboi or are you all waiting for glorious russia to take back the title.

i prefer the Go ball

haven't watched anything this year. has it been glorious or just a bunch of slow draws or both? is the russian young too?

How can anyone support Karjakin and his boring drawish game?

Jagged Alliance 2 was better.

Two results out of 11 games so far. Karjakin's strategy appears to be do literally nothing until Magnus hangs himself out of boredom.

but user

there are tons of good turn-based strategy games around
and chess isn't even strategy game - it's tactical game since it shows only one battle

o fuck me sideways

There's strategy and tactics to chess. Coming up with brilliant combinations is chess tactics, while setting up positional play is strategic.

in warfare strategic level depicts whole war while tactical level refers to battle

Yeah it's a shame. It was especially obvious the last game with Magnus literally trying everything, other than a full blunder, to get some action on the board but Sergey kept it stable until the end.

That's perhaps the most shallow, pointless understanding of the terms strategy and tactics I've ever heard.

no...strategy is the plan while tactics are how the plan is executed.

>>current rank#1 is a giant manchild who throws fits when he loses to black
>>world championship match was a dramafest
Source? I can't find anything.

mathematical and algorithm competitions >>> go >>> chess

I haven't played chess since I was young, so I'm probably awful at it now.

Nobody ever wanted to play it with me.

Magnus lost in game 8 (first full point in the tournament) after making several blunders and was so upset with the loss he stormed out of the post game press conference without answering any questions. Commentators were also suggesting that game 8 had decided the championship as Karjakin's defensive play could have stalled the rest of the games.

He stormed out because Karjakin was taking forever to come to the bench.

so it's basically confirmed that the soviets will take the title by killing the game?

No, Magnus won game 10, so they're even again.

Game 12 Magnus gets to play white, if they are still even after that, they start playing blitz chess which Magnus will murder Karjakin at.

based and based

He stormed out because Gamestop was selling $99 Black New 3DS.

Who else listening to Jerry for these chess games. His commentating and demonstrations of possible moves keeps it interesting.

Shogi does it better.

The only thing better about Shogi is the players are more likely to kill themselves when they realize they've hit their peak and are now falling.

You mean you dislike dropping pieces and promotion being a core part of the game?

I'd play crazyhorse if I wanted that

Shogi is like an expansion pack that's full of gimmicks but loses the crispness and focus that the base game had.

>Has pieces respawning
>Better than Chess.
Literally the CoD of strategy games. Casual weeaboo Naruto trash.

I bet you rely on your queen you shitter

Good, god forbid a russian wins.

Is this a Code Geass reference?

Yes, but people didn't get it. Good job OP.

>Thinks himself above Nietzche and chess while posting on a forum for cartoon girls in 2016

only on Sup Forums, folks

No, reddit as well. But, I repeat myself.

Peter Svidler was talking about Sup Forums during the chess24 stream of the last game.

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fucking bullshit game

Faggot should've kept putting him in check instead of surrounding him.

what is this madness?

XCOM
>Which game?
All of them

how was this a stalemate? timer? # of moves reached?

>RNG
>Good game

Pick one.

Black cannot move without losing and was not put in check.

>Doesn't understand that RNG will average out over the course of a 10+ hour game
You can't win without good positioning and tactics, no matter how lucky you get.

haha u cuck

Also if that moron just moved his Queen one more space that would have been checkmate.

top kek.

>be 10
>playing chess with 17yo cousin
>He insists that the knight moves one to the left and then one up
>I insist that the knight moves one left and two up
>We both play the game with our own knight rules
>win because my way is OP af

Go

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)

its actually two up one left.

hahaha yes. I remember now. good times. forgot about that.

You don't know what Nietzsche or Chess are.

Only way for the queen to get there from b8 is if it took a piece. Otherwise the game would already be in stalemate.

'N CHESS

I can't really tell who's winning, but I want to say black.

Makes me want to play online Mahjong with other anons though.

tanoshii~

that was a good time. quality live commentating too

Did Cro-Magnus die?

I need more tanoshii in my life.