SE4 Strategy - An Art or a Science?

[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by Master Belisarius:
In SE3 times, I have taught (yes, literary I have taught!), about my tactics and strategies near of 12 players. I could be a bad professor (admit), but only 2 or 3 became really good players.

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But Master B, is this not evidence that sucess is more of an art than a science? Of course perhaps it is one more difference between SEIII and SEIV. (I am sure I could find many people that would agree with that statement no?)

I still believe that sucess is much more art than most people relize. A bad player can become adequate through science or art. But it takes both to become truely great.

I have played Askan and Master B, and have beat neither. I understand the science of why I lose. I can perform the calculations, and follow the steps. But I still lose, badly. But I do not consider myself in their league when it comes to the art of war.

I think the true measure of the talent of the artist may be that he is unaware of how talented he is.

Geoschmo

[ 24 April 2002: Message edited by: geoschmo ]