2/4: Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder (Author)
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🗓️ 30 December 2022
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2/4: Seven Games: A Human History by Oliver Roeder (Author)
https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Games-History-Oliver-Roeder/dp/1324003774
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 ways their design makes them pleasurable.
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
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| 0:33.2 | This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batser with Oliver Raider, |
| 0:36.3 | who's delightful new book, Seven Games, a Human History. |
| 0:39.6 | Takes us not only into the games that we played as young people, |
| 0:42.8 | played today, but also how artificial intelligence has |
| 0:47.1 | entered the games to improve or challenge or humble |
| 0:52.0 | or make us doubt the word think. |
| 0:54.5 | I do after reading Oliver's books, so we go to the game of bridge |
| 0:58.5 | and Scrabble simultaneously. |
| 1:00.5 | I learned from Oliver that bridge isn't really very old. |
| 1:04.5 | It's about Victorian era before that there was a game called |
| 1:08.5 | Wist, which is similar but different. |
| 1:10.5 | And I learned that bridge may be not |
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