Quote Originally Posted by Red Harvest
You are overestimating RTW.

Chess requires far more forethought than RTW if you want to be any good at all at chess. The RTW AI can't give you a decent game as it doesn't even make great 1-ply decisions, while skilled chess players will be trying to anticipate at least 8 plies deep (and perhaps 16 plies in the endgame.) That depth is strategic thinking as well as tactical.

Now if you played true MP on the strategic map vs. humans, then you would have an idea how good you are. My money would always be on the better chess player winning (assuming equal experience in both games) and I've played my share of rated chess masters and experts in tournaments.
Nailed it. RTW is, first and foremost, a game, and while more complex than most contemporaries doesn't come close to the complexity of thought needed to play chess well or make one good at real strategy; at best it makes someone into an armchair general, and there's more than enough of those to go around.