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StarCraft became a major competitive strategy game because its three factions were deliberately asymmetric rather than mirror copies with different artwork. A choke point is powerful because geometry reduces how many units can fight at once, allowing a smaller force to make the map do part of the defending. Defensive walls are excellent until the game introduces something that flies.

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The Elo rating system used in chess is named after Arpad Elo, a physics professor and strong chess player. His statistical system was designed to estimate relative playing strength rather than hand out a permanent label of 'good' or 'bad'. For the next piece of trivia: Chess probably developed from earlier Indian games more than a thousand years ago. The modern queen became dramatically more powerful in Europe during the late fifteenth century, speeding the game up.