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Strategy & Defense Games · 9

Real-time strategy games turn attention into a resource. A player can know the correct answer and still lose because three problems demanded action at once. Meanwhile, the mechanics tell a second story: 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. The strongest unit in any strategy game is information arriving before the bad news.

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Two minutes of rabbit hole

Castling is unusual because it is the only standard chess move that moves two pieces at once. It is both a defensive move and a way to activate the rook. Here is another one to steal for a quiz night: Go players describe influence, territory and thickness—ideas that are hard to reduce to a single score during the middle of a game. Much of the strategy is about value that has not become points yet.