Timeline for Why does Battle School train kids in physical combat when it's irrelevant to the ultimate goal?
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| Apr 20, 2017 at 17:56 | comment | added | Ghotir | In addition, the end "simulations" can be very fatiguing. GM Magnus Carlsen (current #1 chess player in the world): "These long tournaments are quite tiring and long games are every tiring, especially at the end. If you are in good shape and can keep your concentration you will be the one who will profit from your opponents' mistakes." He runs on a treadmill as part of his chess training. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 16:09 | comment | added | BlackThorn | The only thing I would add here is that these kids are extremely valuable, and using physical combat as a means to train their tactical abilities was also a convenient way of teaching them to defend themselves against the threat of other humans/governments. We see that this came in handy a few times for Ender. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | DVK-on-Ahch-To | Im' too lazy to post an answer of my own, but you may want to add that physical combat was not very relevant - Ender won the real fight during Free Practice against bigger and more physicaly fit kids. Never mind Madrid | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 13:09 | comment | added | Odin1806 | This is exactly correct. In the military you practice marching in sync, rigorous (borderline obnoxious) cleaning, and numerous other practices that are not "directly" involved in warfare. These all have their purposes however. Everything you do is about a mentality. In the case of physical combat it is about being comfortable in a situation where you know you are going to get hurt and you must hurt the other person in order to either avoid that or stop it from happening. Though it is ship combat in this series the same aspect still applies. For humanity's pain to stop you must strike back. | |
| Apr 20, 2017 at 8:09 | history | answered | ibid | CC BY-SA 3.0 |