High rated RTS gamers: skill or talent?

Let's clarify a keyword the original poster wrote: talent[1] . It has two meaning: gift[2] and/or skills[3]

Gift is something lies under your ADN, it is "premade" and you can't archive it no matter how you pratice.

Skill is something gets improved with the time you are working on it.

I agree with most of the comments so far that "skill" is need to archive 2k. But to reach 2.3k+, you have to do be gifted.

I also talked to some 2.2k ( sometimes 2.3k but falls back to 2.2k soon ) and they complain that they lacks of something they don't know. And he can't win daut or Chris in every map and civ.

Wikipedia also has a short but densed article about RTS[4] which if you read carefully, you will find that the key factors that make a gifted/skilled RTS gamer:

1. Micromanagement ( Yes, it is management, requires experience ( knowhow ), sometimes a a little research to the game )
2. Macromanagement ( Yes, it is management, requires experience ( knowhow ), sometimes a a little research to the game )

Both are important but IMO, macromanagement are more important: It is the capacity to adapt econ/armies to various situations. Where and how to attack. Help or contribute. I also strongly recommend reading "The art of war" by Sun Tzu[5].


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talent
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skill
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy#Gameplay
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_War

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Compile/Run icc with cairo

Hi all,

I've tried icc 10.1 Pro with cairo ( http://cairographics.org/releases/cairo-1.4.10.tar.gz )

the installation went smooth as follows:

CentOS 5.
[vuhung@aoclife cairo]$ uname -r
2.6.18-8.el5
[vuhung@aoclife cairo]$ rpm -qa | grep glibc
glibc-2.5-12
glibc-headers-2.5-12
glibc-common-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12
[vuhung@aoclife cairo]$

yum install libstdc++.so.5
tar xvzf l_cc_p_10.1.008.tar.gz
cd l_cc_p_10.1.008
./install
#serial number: VJFV-MP9H3R5J
cat "source /opt/intel/cc/10.1.008/bin/iccvars.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile

icc now can run.

Then,

cd ~/usr/src/cairo-1.4.10
./configure --without-xlib --disable-xlib CC=icc
make;
make install

And when I tried to compile icc with cairo ( hello.c ):

icc -o hello `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo` hello.c

I got the error:

icc -o hello `pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo` hello.c
/tmp/icck8ycA8.o: In function `main':
hello.c:(.text+0x1c): undefined reference to `cairo_image_surface_create'
hello.c:(.text+0x24): undefined reference to `cairo_create'
hello.c:(.text+0x80): undefined reference to `cairo_move_to'
hello.c:(.text+0x91): undefined reference to `cairo_destroy'
hello.c:(.text+0xa2): undefined reference to `cairo_surface_destroy'

where:

[vuhung@aoclife cairo]$ pkg-config --cflags --libs cairo
-I/usr/local/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12  -L/usr/local/lib -lcairo

Yes, icc couldn't find some API. Because I am new to icc, I don't know how icc creates and links the libraries.

If in the steps above, I replace icc with gcc, everything will be fine.



-----------cut here ------------
#include 

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
       cairo_surface_t *surface;
       cairo_t *cr;

       surface = cairo_image_surface_create (CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32, 240, 80);
       cr = cairo_create (surface);

       cairo_select_font_face (cr, "serif", CAIRO_FONT_SLANT_NORMAL, CAIRO_FONT_WEIGHT_BOLD);
       cairo_set_font_size (cr, 32.0);
       cairo_set_source_rgb (cr, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
       cairo_move_to (cr, 10.0, 50.0);
       cairo_show_text (cr, "Hello, world");
       cairo_destroy (cr);
       cairo_surface_write_to_png (surface, "hello.png");
       cairo_surface_destroy (surface);

       return 0;
}

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Install Intel C++ Compiler 10.1 on Centos 5

エラー: 依存性の欠如:
libstdc++.so.5 は intel-icc101008-10.1.008-1.i386 に必要とされています
libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) は intel-icc101008-10.1.008-1.i386 に必要とされています


yum install libstdc++.so.5
wget http://registrationcenter-download.intel.com/irc_nas/861/l_cc_p_10.1.008.tar.gz
tar xvzf l_cc_p_10.1.008.tar.gz
cd l_cc_p_10.1.008
./install
#serial number: VJFV-MP9H3R5J
cat "source /opt/intel/cc/10.1.008/bin/iccvars.sh" >> ~/.bash_profile

icc now can run.