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Scientific American: Game Theorists Crack Poker
By Philip Ball and Nature magazine An “essentially unbeatable” algorithm for Texas hold ’em points to strategies for solving real-life problems without having complete information. A new computer algorithm can play one of the most popular variants
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The Atlantic: How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students
By JESSICA LAHEY Matching up cards and planning the next chess move can help develop a child’s executive function—a set of skills that may be more important for success than IQ points. There has been
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Slate: The Pro-Union Civil War Board Game That Was the Chutes and Ladders of 1862
By Rebecca Onion In 1862, a year into the Civil War, the Philadelphia publishing company Charlton & Althrop registered a trademark for this optimistic and bellicose “Game of Secession, or Sketches of the Rebellion.” The
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Prelude to Waterloo – A Boardgaming Way Essay
By Paul D Fish DVM On April 6, 1814 Napoleon was forced to abdicate his thrown and go into exile on the island of Elba, near his birthplace in Corsica. He remained there for
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WSJ: The First War to Run on Oil
From the Wall Street Journal By DANIEL YERGIN World War I made gasoline central to combat and world politics. Half a century ago, on the 50th anniversary of World War I, the diplomatic historian William
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What Happened to the Hood? (Part II) – An Analysis
By Paul Comben In the first part of this analysis, I looked at the events leading up to those fateful minutes in the Denmark Strait, and then at the course of the battle itself. In
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WSJ: The War That Broke a Century
A king, a kaiser, a czar—all were undone as they realized what they had unleashed with World War I. By PEGGY NOONAN Updated July 25, 2014 6:52 p.m. ET Next week marks the 100th
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Washington Post: How Nicky and Willy could have prevented WWI
By Graham Allison Graham Allison is director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School. One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm
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AOL: Military tanks to be auctioned in California
By AOL staff: Military tanks to be auctioned in California PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – More than 80 tanks amassed by a Stanford University-trained engineer are set to go up for sale in the
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What Was Wrong With “Our Bloody Ships”? – An Analysis
by Paul Comben An analysis of the British Battle Cruisers at Jutland It is common for historians seeking to explain the failures and frustrations surrounding the conduct of the British fleet at Jutland to
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