It’s chess with lasers
Sam LaGrone, Staff Writer
Command & Conquer will never possess the grace of a Ruy Lopez opening or tactical brilliance of the Sicilian Defense.
But at its heart the game is chess — with lasers.
The 12-year-old real-time strategy (RTS) franchise hasn’t strayed from that concept in its latest, “Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.”
Set in 2047, Earth has been taken over by Tiberium, a green radioactive rock candy-looking crystal that sprouts out the ground.
Two factions battle over either eradicating the stuff or harnessing its power to create the next step of human evolution, or the white pieces versus the black pieces.
Here is the full story.
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
What a weird notion. I’ve played Command & Conquer, Warcraft and the like, and they’re most certainly not chess, in any way, shape or form.
Neither is football, for that matter. Sorry.
The spirit is the same, only the rules are different.
“The spirit is the same” just means that “both are strategy-based games”. That’s a pretty weak analogy. Monopoly is a strategy based game too, but nobody would call it “chess with dice”.
Still, I think we’ve hit on a funny angle here. Imagine that:
Monopoly = Chess with dice
Command and Conquer 1 = Chess with machine guns
Checkers = Chess with no depth
Bridge = Chess with cards
Suddoku = Chess with numbers
Tic Tac Toe = Chess with boredom
Football = Chess with injuries
Warcraft = Chess with Orcs
Risk = Chess with geography
Red Baron = Chess with biplanes
Panzerblitz = Chess with bad accents
It’s a shame you chose Command and Conquer. Better would have been a turn-based strategy game. Civilization is the most popular – and educational, too.
I dunno, Command and Conquer might actually be closer. At least it and chess are pure combat games, while Civ has educational and construction elements. Besides, she didn’t choose it, the writer of the article did.
Continuing along with the theme that “everything with strategy in it is ultimately chess”, how about…
Afrika Korps = Chess with hexagons
Scholastic Chess = Chess with detention
Bughouse = Chess with insanity
Real life = Chess with death and taxes
Using a roadmap = Chess with getting lost
The Price is Right = Chess with jumping up and down
Getting a girl to come up to your apartment = Chess with beggging and pleading
IMHO those games (C&C and the superior Starcraft)are more like Rock, Paper, Scissors rather than chess.
Hey, that’s a good one.
Backgammon = Chess with luck
And, continuing on:
Spades = Chess with a partner to blame your defeats on.
Or…
Command And Conquer: Red Alert = Chess With Russians.
Oh, wait. That’s regular chess, isn’t it?
Afrika Korps = chess with groceries
I could never get the Italians enough groceries…