Chess

[David Johnston2]

What skill would you say Chess is more relevant to? Tactics or Strategy?

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

What skill would you say Chess is more relevant to? Tactics or Strategy?

From the Basic descriptions, Strategy is somewhat closer but horribly vaguely defined.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

From the Basic descriptions, Strategy is somewhat closer but horribly vaguely defined.

Agreed. Tactics is defined fairly specifically, and Chess has little to do with it.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

What skill would you say Chess is more relevant to? Tactics or Strategy?

Neither. It's a game with relatively simple rules completely unlike actual combat. It's like asking which it's more like: cooking, or ballet.

[vicky_molokh]

I've heard it said that
Checkers and gomoku are primarily about technique,
Chess and Shogi add tactics,
Go adds strategy.

Of course, correlation with military Tactics and Strategy is a cinematic convention only.

[McAllister]

GURPS Metagamer, a book about players playing game-playing characters, would be one hell of a book.

Until then, Games will have to cover very different games. Which is fair enough.

[jason taylor]

I'd say it could be either. However chess is a stylistic depiction of a single battle rather then a campaign and that would be tactics.

[kdtipa]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Neither. It's a game with relatively simple rules completely unlike actual combat. It's like asking which it's more like: cooking, or ballet.

I agree with this. I'd add though that games like Chess, and even role playing games where you have to make decisions to try for the outcome you want, seem like good instruction in how to think like you would need to think for both Tactics and Strategy. I'm not saying a Chess player or RPGer would be great at Tactics and Strategy for real world combat based on the gaming, but it seems to me like there's some benefit from that way of thinking.

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Neither. It's a game with relatively simple rules completely unlike actual combat. It's like asking which it's more like: cooking, or ballet.

I think you could make a weak case for a one way default. Chess skill wouldn't get you any Tactics at all, but once the rules are explained to him, somebody with Tactics might legitimately get the same sort of default to Chess as he would to the Tactics skill for some radically different kind of military unit.

[ericthered]

Originally Posted by malloyd

I think you could make a weak case for a one way default. Chess skill wouldn't get you any Tactics at all, but once the rules are explained to him, somebody with Tactics might legitimately get the same sort of default to Chess as he would to the Tactics skill for some radically different kind of military unit.

I might let chess get used as a complementary roll to the IQ based tactics default. Which is to say it helps a little if you know nothing about it.but you still are crap at it.