Its fantastical theme belies that at its heart, it’s a card game built on simple principles of attack and defense. You use your cards to attack your opponent’s cards, and then to attack their avatar directly, and then you win the game — if you’re not clobbered first. Chen, whom Hearthstone players call “Tom,” has been trying to win the world championship for the past four years, or nearly as long as the game has existed. He bested thousands of players and made it into the first Hearthstone World Championship in 2014, ESPN reports, only to lose every single match. But in the first seconds of the final game, Chen did something that many would note afterward.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 21:08 UTC