[Slynky]

Originally posted by DavidG:

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Originally posted by Slynky:

By the way, chess uses the same pieces on the same board and the same settings. Why is KOTH such a clone?

99% of opening chess moves P-KP4. how much more cloned can you get?

Please don't make me list the ways how all SE4 games are similar.

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It's P-K4 (which, by the way is the old way of notation). It's written that way to save time while on the clock. After all, only one pawn can get there.

But you display a strange attitude...chess has, for years, been considered the greated game of all. I'm sure there are "Go" enthusiasts among us (and I used to give a 3-stone handicap for anyone I played 'cause the chances of them being any good at "Japan's chess" were slight) who might disagree.

But, disregarding chess, SE4 offers the same thing (with the inclusion of some luck...which chess doesn't really have to deal with). You have a board layed out in front of you and though you might do some of the same things, you generally find you have to adapt to the map (board), and ships (pieces) and opponent in order to get a win.

But, that aside, don't throw chess into the same bucket as SE4. Until you have studied the game as much as I have, know as much as I do, understand it is a worldwide game, Don't assume it is a boring and redundant game. I forget the statistics but in the hundreds of thousands of games that have been recorded for history, there has been about .0001% occurance of a repeated game. And those were short.