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Playing War: The Development and Early Use of Kriegsspiel
Footnoting History
18 minutes
1 month ago
Playing War: The Development and Early Use of Kriegsspiel
(Host: Samantha)
Games are amazing. They teach us how to engage with the world through play. They’ve also been used to train some of the greatest military minds. Chess is notoriously the game of the aristocracy, used to teach strategy and forward thinking. In the 19th century, a Prussian father and son, George Leopold von Reisswitz and Georg Heinrich Rudolf Johann von Reisswitz, brought strategic gaming to a whole new level with profound results.
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