TWO STRATEGIC GAMES by Branden Wang

In the world, every game has a spark. There are sports, board games, card games, word games, puzzles and many more. But, two games shine the brightest: Capture the Flag and Chess.  

    

Capture the flag is a strategic game. If you don’t plan well, your flags will be taken, defeated, and lacking pride will describe your team after that massive attack. The teams need defenders defending your flags; the teams need swift players on offense taking the other feller’s flags. In this spectacular game, brains beat brawn. The objective is to win by taking the other team’s flags. When the other team’s players are on your side, tag them and they become “prisoners”. If the other team’s players come to your side and tag the prisoners, they are not your prisoners, and you cannot tag the escaping prisoner. If an opposing player, who has one of your flags, gets tagged, your flag gets returned. Capture the Flag is an exciting game.

The king moves left. Bam, checkmate. Chess is an unpredictable game that boasts your brainpower by 2 times. You have to use your brain, you have to use you common sense, your logic, and strategy. Watch Garry Kasparov, Emanuel Lasker, and Paul Morphy, some of the world’s best chess players, to unravel the best chess games played. In the game, there are 16 pieces: 8 pawns, 2 rooks, 2 knights, 2 bishops, 1 queen, and 1 king. It is hard to explain what the pieces do so just look at the following link: http://www.chesslab.com/rules/chessrules.html. Chess is a brain stimulating game.

In the two exciting games, there is a main similarity: a strategic mind. In these two games, you need strategy to win. In capture the flag, plan on how to defend your flags, and keep your prisoners from escaping, and take the other team’s flags. In chess, use strategic thinking to keep the other team’s pawns from reaching your side getting higher ranks, and how you will attack the enemy, and checkmate the other team’s king. In these games, strategy is resembled greatly.

Chess and Capture the flag are different in one main way. In Capture the Flag athletics is the key thing and in chess, brains is the key thing. In Capture the Flag, run to get the other team’s flag and at the same time make sure that you are not taken prisoner. In chess, make sure that you are not jeopardizing yourself and that you can react to the opponent’s next move. Both Capture the Flag and Chess require plugging in strategic thinking. Different games require different skills to play.

In the world, new games pop up everywhere, every millisecond. If I were to write all the names of games down, it would be 5,472,945 pages long and there would be approximately 7,492,345,873 games on the list. But, like most people, I like only about 0.00000000000000000000000000003272% of the games in the world. They happen to be two wondrous games, two spectacular games, two superb games. They are Capture the Flag and Chess.