COSMIC BLOG - Chess VS Battleship
COSMIC BLOG - CHESS VS BATTLESHIP
“The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.” - Sun Tzu
Am I really doing this?....
Hell Yes I Am!
Chess, The First Ever Tactical War Game Of Medieval Proportions!
Battleship, The Brutal Strategy Game On The Seven Seas!
War is Hell. But with just a pinch of wonder, a dabble of creativity, and an excessive ammonia of wood, plastic, and cardboard, even this brutal horror can be made into a joyous activity for the whole family… that sounds bad. Don't send your children to war.
But between the two greatest board games to take the concept of war and make it fun, who would come out on top? Well, let's find out!
Before We Start
I can already hear people asking
“Isn't this unfair? It's a representation of old medieval military battles against ships powerful enough to blast aircrafts out of the sky.”
I can see how that may be strange to some people. But with further research, these little wooden pieces are… more impressive than you may think. I’ll be going over all the base stuff for these two, focusing on the classic tabletop games and related media like some Video Games and Movies that add to the debate while not delving deep into “wtf” territory. I will however be avoiding delving into crossover stuff. So No Dragon Ball Z Chess or Star Wars Galaxies Battleship. Would it be fun to include these? Absolutely, and if someone chose to include this in their own script or blog I would think that'd be awesome. But for this Blog, I'll be focusing on just the classics to avoid my head from exploding. So, without further ado. Let's begin this chaos.
Chess Media Being Used:
Classic Tabletop Game
5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel
Battleship Media Being Used:
Classic Tabletop Game
Battleship Video Game (2012)
Nintendo NES Battleship (1993)
Battleship 2012 Movie
Background
Chess
The origins of chess are not exactly clear, though most believe it evolved from earlier chess-like games played in India almost two thousand years ago.The game of chess we know today has been around since the 15th Century where it became popular in Europe.
Chess is a game played by two people on a chessboard, with sixteen pieces (of six types) for each player. Each type of piece moves in a distinct way. The goal of the game is to checkmate, that is, to threaten the opponent's king with inevitable capture. Games do not necessarily end with checkmate – players often resign if they believe they will lose. In addition, there are several ways that a game can end in a draw.
Besides the basic movement of the pieces, rules also govern the equipment used, the time control, the conduct and ethics of players, accommodations for physically challenged players, the recording of moves using chess notation, as well as provide procedures for resolving irregularities which can occur during a game.
Battleship
Battleship (also called Battleships and Sea Battle) is a two player guessing game. The game itself appears to predate at least World War I, but it's unknown just how far back people have been playing many different variations. It started off as a pencil and paper game until it was released by the Milton Bradley Company as a physical board game in 1967. The game is now produced and sold by Hasbro.
The original 1967 version remained largely unchanged for its first ten years, but in 1977 Milton Bradley released "Electronic Battleship”, followed in 1989 by "Electronic Talking Battleship."
A new and updated hexagonally tiled version of Battleship was released in 2010, in which each player's board contains several islands where "captured man" figurines can be placed. Ships may not be placed on islands, and may only reside on the player's own half of the board.
Experience & Skill
Chess
The Pieces in Chess are obviously inspired by medieval warfare from the 15th Century and Before. Back in Medieval Times, Knights and other Warriors would train vigorously in Sword and Bow Skills, Horseback Riding, and Combat Strategy. The Era of Knights and other Medieval Soldiers lasted around 450 years, meaning there's hundreds of medieval battle strategies and tactics to pull from.
Battleship
Naval Training during the 20th Century was quite possibly some of the hardest training soldiers have ever had through history. You were pushed to your limits, taught to use highly powerful and deadly fire arms, and some even compared to to Torture on some levels. And that's without even bringing up managing a Warship. Massive Warships like Destroyers and Aircraft Carriers often required crews in the hundreds to thousands. All helping manage weapons, controls, identifying threats, and more than I could even imagine.
Armies / Pieces
Chess
Pawn
The pawn only moves forward one space with the exception of the first time it is moved, when it may move forward one or two spaces. If another piece is in front of it, the pawn may not move or capture that piece. Pawns may only attack a target if the target is one space diagonally forward from the pawn.
Knight
The knight is somewhat special in that it is the only piece that can “jump” over other pieces. They move to the nearest square not on the same rank, file, or diagonal, i.e. two squares horizontally or vertically and then one square perpendicular to that in an “L” shaped pattern. For example, a knight may move two spaces horizontally and one space vertically, and vice versa. The knight cannot be blocked, and only captures pieces that it lands on. In other words, you can “jump” over all the pieces blocking the knight, and capture a piece as you land.
Bishop
Bishops may move any number of vacant squares in any diagonal direction. Like rooks, they may capture an opponent's piece within its path.
Rook
Rooks may move any number of vacant squares vertically (up and down) or horizontally (left and right). If an opponent's piece blocks the path, that piece may be captured by moving the rook into the occupied square.
Queen
Generally considered the most powerful piece. The Queen moves much like a rook and bishop combined. Queens can move any number of vacant squares diagonally, horizontally, or vertically. Attacking with a queen is the same as with rooks and bishops, taking an opponent's piece that lies within its path.
King
The King can move exactly one space in any direction and can attack any piece except the opponent’s king and queen (it cannot go near it or else it would result in check).
Battleship
Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
Submarine
A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.
Cruiser
A cruiser is a type of warship. Modern cruisers are generally the largest ships in a fleet after aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships, and can usually perform several operational roles from search-and-destroy to ocean escort to sea denial.
Battleship
A battleship is a large, heavily armored warship with a main battery consisting of large guns, designed to serve as capital ships. From their advent in the late 1880s, battleships were among the largest and most formidable weapon systems ever built, until they were surpassed by aircraft carriers beginning in the 1940s. Speaking of which.
Aircraft Carrier
An aircraft carrier is a warship that serves as a seagoing airbase, equipped with a full-length flight deck and hangar facilities for supporting, arming, deploying and recovering shipborne aircraft.
Equipment
Chess
Swords
The Most Commonly Used Weapon within the Medieval Era. Due to the fact that every piece can take the other, even though there being a clear power difference, it's believable that every Chess Piece in lore has a Sword.
Horses
Based on how Knights are represented by Horses, it's likely that The Knights (and potentially other pieces aswell) travel and fight upon Horseback.
Fortress
The Rook can also be referred to as Castles of Fortresses. Fortresses like this one were a nessesity in Medieval War. And apparently, these ones can move.
MULTIVERSAL TIME TRAVEL
Never said we weren't going slightly into the realm of “wtf”. 2020’s “5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel” might be weird to use, but it's pretty much the same as regular chess, connects to the classic game in ways no other Chess Video Game does with the Multiverse, and… it's fun. Lol.
The Chess Pieces from 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel are special pieces with the ability to travel across 5 dimensions. They can move in the usual three, but are also able to move along the time axis and along a 5th-dimensional axis in which they can find alternate timelines.
The Chess Pieces have their own unique kind of time travel. They are freely able to move into the past or jump into alternate timelines following movement patterns that are generalizations of those of typical chess pieces. A rook, for example, can only move an arbitrary distance (at least 8 squares) in a straight line in a single move, just that for these special rooks the straight line could also be straight to the past, without changing its location in space, or straight into other timelines, without changing its location in time and space. The Chess Pieces are more restricted in regard to traveling into the future. They can only travel from their present into the future of another timeline and that only if that timeline's present is already in the future for them.
Teleportation: Can switch to different timelines, which lie along an extra dimensional axis.
Acausality: Getting destroyed in the past doesn't affect their present self but instead creates a branching timeline in which they were destroyed.
Battleship
Battleship Weapons
Turrets
The Main and Most Common Weapon of The Battleships, often used to destroy enemy Battleships in just a few shots with massive explosives.
Browning M2HB
The Browning M2 is a belt-fed, short recoil-operated .50 caliber heavy machine gun based directly on the M1918 and M1921 machine guns, themselves scaled-up versions of the Browning M1917 and Browning M1919.
GE M134 Minigun
A six-barreled, electrically-driven rotary gun originally designed by General Electric
M61 Vulcan
An externally powered six-barrel rotary gun having a rate of fire of up to 7,200 rounds per minute.
Normal Weapons
SIG-Sauer P226
The SIG-Sauer P220 is a pistol platform developed by the Swiss company SIG-Sauer, to replace the SIG P210 in Swiss service.
M16
The M16 rifle series is the United States military designation of rifle variants of the ArmaLite AR-15 assault rifle adopted by the US military.
Mossberg 500
The Mossberg 500 is an American pump-action shotgun introduced in 1961 and manufactured by O.F. Mossberg & Sons.
Alien Weapons
These weapons are seen and used in the 2012 Battleship Video Game.
KRAW
This is the primary weapon of the Regents wearing blue armor, it fires blue projectiles and has decent damage. It needs to be vented after some time.
Alien Railgun
This is the most powerful weapon in the game, but without using precision aiming, it has very low accuracy with hip fire, but it has got a very big range and damage. The sight looks strange - but it is useful. It has a few seconds of hesitation upon firing. Upon aiming at the target and starting to shoot, an orange circle appear and move towards the centre, leaving red dots on the way. Only when the circle meet the triangle at the centre to form a triangular-shaped sight than the Railgun can be fired. This delay in firing effectively removes quick-scoping. Note that this same delay does not occur when used during (the poorly accurate) hip fire mode. The Railgun is the primary weapon of Regents Commanders (wearing gold armour).
Explosives
C4 Explosives
Powerful Remote Explosives that can be planted and activated manually.
Grenades
It's a Grenade. Enough said.
Fighter Jets
Due to the existence of the Aircraft Carrier, we can assume the Naval Unit also has access to Fighter Jets and Aircrafts. This fact is actually backed up in the Nintendo and 2012 Battleship Video Games.
Feats
Chess
Overall
Is the most Famous and Known Tabletop Game of all Time
The Pieces have Successfully Travel Throughout the Chess Multiverse
Strength
All of the pieces can take down The Rook, which is a large Fortress (61.5 Tons of TNT, City Block Level)
Their Speed can be Measured to see the power output they'd unleash by running into, of through, someone (City Level)
Speed
The Distance on the Chessboard represents the distance between 2 Kingdoms
The Queen, Rooks, and Bishops can travel up to 8 spaces near instantly (Mach 3640, Massively Hypersonic+)
Can move backwards and under certain conditions forward in time (Possibly Immeasurable)
Durability
Chess Pieces can survive their own Movement Speed and can come to an immediate stop with no harm (14 Megatons, City Level)
Battleship
Overall
Has sold over 100 Million Copies sense 1967
Successfully Fought Back against an Alien Invasion
Strength
Potentially Equipped with Hundreds of Guns that could all be fired for a minute straight (451 Gigajoules, City-Block Level)
Some Explosives can take down Enemy Battleships in a single shot (15-20 Kilotons, Town Level)
Speed
Naval Soldiers can dodge shots from the Alien Railgun, which seems to be a Laser based weapon (Reletivistic+, potentially Speed Of Light)
Durability
Large Ships like Aircraft Carriers can tank Explosives that would destroy smaller Battleships (Town Level)
Time to Compare
Stats
Let's get Speed out of the way first. As the Immeasurable Speed Chess Arguments may not be as important as they may first seem. The Chess Pieces from “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel” can jump between Backwards and Forward in Time. But generally, this cannot be taken as actual Combat Speed. As it's Directly Tied to the Haxes and is more so Time Travel than Haxes. They aren't like the Flash where they time travel through sheer speed. Its all due to their Powers and the properties of the Pieces within the game. In terms of Combat Speed, The Chess Pieces can reach Massively Hypersonic+ Speeds due to traveling across the Chessboard near Instantly. Meanwhile, most Battleships can only reach around 38 Miles Per Hour. Meaning Chess has superior Movement Speed. But the Soldiers themselves can dodge Light Speed Lasers from the Alien Railgun. Giving them superior Reaction Speed. But it's more likely the Movement Speed will matter more in the long run due to The Battleships being the main means of combat. And Characters like The Queen and Bishops can move much faster than any weapons on the Battleships.
In terms of Strength and Power, the Battleships can strike with around 20 Kilotons of TNT, while with just their Strength alone the Chess Pieces can only strike with around 61.5 Tons of TNT. But when factoring in Chess’s Speed, the gap gets closed. As the Chess Pieces at their Massively Hypersonic+ Speeds can strike with and tank the force of 14 Megatons of TNT. Meaning the Chess pieces will be able to take down most of the Battleships by just running right through them. And Due to their Durability, the Chess Pieces can tank just about any weapon the Battleships have access to, including their strongest explosives. The exception though would be The Alien Railgun. Which could potentially put down the Chess Pieces. With that in mind though, let's look at the Chess Pieces Survivability.
Multiversal Time Travel
While the Railgun could potentially kill the Chess Pieces, the many Hax that the Chess Pieces have might make them far too hard to kill either way. They can travel backwards in time to change events and perform different actions. And being destroyed or killed in the past doesn't affect their present self at all. It instead creates a branching timeline in which they were destroyed. Which means they died in another timeline, but not the timeline that we're following during the fight. So even if the Battleships can successfully destroy The King or take out The Queen, they won't have actually been destroyed and will just pop back into the present to continue the fight. This Timeline and Dimensional Travel means it's going to be incredibly difficult for the Battleships to put them down the Chess Pieces for good. But it won't be impossible, as with so many Powerful Weapons from all the Battleships, The Fighter Planes, and The Alien Railgun it's likely the Battleships will take down many of the Chess Pieces. But The Queen in Particular is going to be insanely difficult for the Battleships to take down due to her Speed and Power above the other pieces.
Other
When it comes to Experience, they're likely comparable. Chess might even have a slight advantage due to existing for longer. But I'm terms of true Combat Skill and Strategy/Planning, the Marines and Battleships take that by a mile. Naval Training was some of the toughest training any military group ever went through, and they learned to work together in the Hundreds. And they're much more skilled in a wide variety of weapons. Which leads into Battleship’s Arsenal Advantage. From Powerful Firearms, Aircrafts, Alien Weaponry, and The Battleships Themselves. Battleship has a massive arsenal that Chess could never even dream to match. And these weapons also give them much superior range, compared to the Melee Only Chess Pieces.
Results
Chess
+ Physically Stronger
+ Faster Movement Speed
+ More Durable
+ Powerful Haxes
+ Time Travel and Acausality makes the Chess Pieces harder to put down
= Similar Levels of Experience
- Less Fire Power
- Slower Reaction Speed
- Purely Melee Fighter
- Weaker Arsenal
- Less Skilled and Strategic
Battleship
+ Way More Fire Power
+ Faster Reaction Speed
+ Has Further Range with Turrets and Firearms
+ Much Stronger Arsenal
+ More Skilled & Strategic
= Similar Levels of Experience
- Physically Weaker
- Slower Movement Speed
- Less Durable
- Little to No Haxes
- Are much easier to take down for good than the Chess Pieces
Overall this War is shockingly even. But when comparing everything, to everyone's shock, Chess seems to have the more meaningful advantages. Their Speed and Power allows them to get around nearly every weapon the Battleships have, besides maybe the Alien Weaponry. Leaving their Arsenal Advantage Mute for the most part. And while their crews are in the Hundreds on Each Battleship while most Chess Armies clock in at just 16 units, those units are so fast and strong that even one of them would prove troublesome for a whole fleet. Far from dangerous, but in an entire military force they turn into a near unstoppable force for the Battleships.
Even if we choose to not use “5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel” (as I admit it's kind of goofy to use), Chess would still have the advantage with their unrelenting force. Toss on the Time Travel and Dimensional Haxes making them so hard to kill, and the Battleships simply can't come up with any strategy to take them down.
Will Battleships go down without a fight? Hell no, these guys have fought off entire Alien Invasions before. And the Results could potentially be very different when using Crossover Media. But with what we covered, Chess’ Overwhelming Power, Speed, and insane Multiverse Time Travel put them in a winning position.
THAT'S CHECKMATE
YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP
The Winner Is…. Chess!
If You’re seeing this, thank you for reading my First Ever Versus Blog. Or, the first one I finished anyway. I have another one almost finished, but I’m taking a break from it to focus on other things. I did all the research for this on my own in just one day, So I highly doubt it's perfect. But I had a lot of fun writing it, and I hope you enjoyed reading. Feel free to give me your thoughts, and let me know if I missed anything. Thank you very much!
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