HSPLS site	Login My List - 0 Help
	Search   My Account   Databases   HI Newspaper   eBooks/Audiobooks   Learning   PC Reservation   Reading Program

Basic Advanced Power History

Search:  Title BrowseAuthor BrowseSubject BrowseBest Seller BrowseMusic Title BrowseVideo/DVD Title BrowseJournal/Newspaper Title BrowseSerial Title BrowseSeries Browse (includes Bestseller List)General KeywordTitle KeywordAuthor KeywordSubject KeywordName KeywordSeries KeywordScore Title BrowseTalking Book Title BrowseAwards Note BrowseBib No.Barcode       Refine Search     > You're searching: HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM

Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Roeder, Oliver, author.     Subjects     Board games -- History.     Card games -- History.     Word games -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Roeder, Oliver, author.       by title:      Seven games : a huma...         MARC Display

Seven games : a human history / Oliver Roeder. by Roeder, Oliver, author. New York, N.Y. : W. W. Norton & Company, [2022] Subjects Board games -- History.   Card games -- History.   Word games -- History. ISBN:  9781324003779 (hardcover) : 1324003774 (hardcover) : Description:  306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue -- Introduction -- Checkers -- Chess -- Go -- Backgammon -- Poker -- Scrabble -- Bridge -- Epilogue. Requests:  0 Summary:  "A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why -- and how -- we play them. Checkers, Backgammon, Chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and Bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In "Seven Games," Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the behavioral design that make them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai the Master, the last Go champion of Imperial Japan, defending tradition against "modern rationalism"; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the Space Shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games -- and for us. Funny, fascinating and profound, "Seven Games" is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Art, Music & Recreation 794 Ro Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 794 Roeder Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua Public Library Adult Nonfiction 794 Ro Checked In Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.