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The 'Nerd' is back once again with his second installment of "Checkmate:Good Game!" Expect nothing less than a mind-busting, brain-cringing joy ride on how to play CS like Chess. This installment explains why 'Offense is the best Defense', read more to find out!
Disclaimer: Please do not take this piece too literally. Many have fallen into such a hole and have criticized this article for providing a poor comparison. We can compare chess with anything; likewise we can compare Counter-Strike with everything. If you truly believe that you can compare egg tossing with Counter-Strike as well as I can provide a contrast between Counter-Strike and chess and show just as strong a correlation, as ranged of an extrapolation, and as profound of a rationale, then please do so at your own discretion. Welcome to the second installment of ‘Checkmate’. It’s been a pleasure to see the good and the bad comments from the many readers since the first installment was released to the public. Within that short period of time, I have received tons of emails and messages regarding the article and Counter-Strike strategies in general. For those teams and individuals that I’ve had the chance to chat with, I can be absolutely certain that their way of thinking and/or their style of playing have improved since. As for those who criticize me for trying to ‘teach’ Counter-Strike without having sufficient experience in the game, I can answer with this: Although I am not the best Counter-Strike player, although I am an ‘unknown’ in the Counter-Strike community, and although Decline from Nameless is giving me free lessons on how to play CS (mad props!!) it does not necessary mean that I cannot judge and critically analyze the game. It does not take death to judge life; we judge life even though we have not ascended to the next phase. Why then can we not do the same to anything else? Moving on... This series consists of an uncertain number of sections; as time goes by, ideas form and my fingers type. The sections are neither ordered in terms of importance, nor are they chronologically ordered. They are all just faculties within themselves that contribute to the whole picture. What I can now reveal, however, are the current topics that are actively involved in my head and in this series. Below are some of these topics, with a little description as a teaser.
With such a wide topic scope, a lot of material will be left out. Teams or players that wish to learn more, or feel that I can be of some use in training/speaking to the team, feel free to contact me through email: mlau@connect.carleton.ca or find me in #gotfrag
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The Ultimate Weapon - ‘Predicting’ Part One – … the ability to predict is a powerful weapon that more than often will determine the outcome of the game… (Last installment)
Mind Sets: Offense is the Best Defense – You start off with the 'Leet Krew' model. Are you now the offense or the defense? Think carefully before you answer this... (This installment)
User Comments
should have been f6 instaead of g6...
nice read so far
Anyway, nice article. Generally if you're attacking you are winning because you are forcing THEM to adapt. If you are adapting you are losing. In the military they call this the 'initiative' and it translates very well to CS. I agree with everything that you have said.
I look forward to the next one. Trying to teach probability to CS players and to make them actually think about what they are doing ingame is a nightmare. Sometimes i think the CPL teams don't understand probability. I don't care how good you are, you're really not going to win a 3v5 with the bomb down (as CT) against a semi-decent team so you shouldn't really try it, for example.
Cant win games without a clear mind :)
In the truely theoretical sense with everything going perfectly my statement still stands. I believe if you want to win, the more factors you have working in your favour the better so that less emphasis is put on the random ones like individual play.
Still, it's an interesting topic to think about. In CoD2, there are several maps where offense has easy access to a bombsite, so defense must push middle and flank through spawn to win the round.
It's not arrogance. It is pride with a tint of self-recognition. If I was arrogant I wouldn't let everyone know how I got my ass whooped by a bench warmer :p
Good read, man! I should really get back into playing chess--used to play it a lot back in grade school.
Your one quote of "You're your own worse enemey" is similar to what I told my team the other day. The reason most cal-i teams, especially well known teams, win against somewhat unknown teams, isn't cause they are that much better, but the team is so intimidated that they forget their style of play. And fall out of rhythm.
"It is not the mountain that shall stop you in your journey, but the grain of sand in your shoe"
good read very interesting
although im naturally an agressive player i keep that locked away to help secure the defense tactics, i think i may have to unleash some attacks with my team
ty for the read
Good article but I wasn't really interested in it. The first installment bored me. Write-up was nice though.
Read the disclaimer. Everything is like chess and chess is like everything.
Something I learned new in 1 game carrys to another, likewise. I've been in several feilds of construction, and I am always able to carry over a unique skill from every trade to the next, making the learning progress easier.
I could, and so can every single article written in the world of Academia. That is why there are 'thesis' and there are 'summaries'.
But is that the point?
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