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Summary: The former world chess champion who played, and lost, against Deep Blue, a supercomputer, in 1997 discusses why he thinks humans should embrace the competition between themselves and machine intelligence.

Rich connections between gaming and theater stretch back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when England's first commercial theaters appeared right next door to gaming houses and blood-sport arenas. In the first book-length exploration of gaming in the early modern period, Gina Bloom shows that theaters succeeded in London's new entertainment marketplace largely because watching a play and playing a game were similar experiences. Audiences did not just see a play; they were encouraged to play the play, and knowledge of gaming helped them become better theatergoers. Examining dramas written for these theaters alongside evidence of analog games popular then and today, Bloom argues for games as theatrical media and theater as an interactive gaming technology.Gaming the Stage also introduces a new archive for game studies: scenes of onstage gaming, which appear at climactic moments in dramatic literature. Bloom reveals plays to be systems of information for theater spectators: games of withholding, divulging, speculating, and wagering on knowledge. Her book breaks new ground through examinations of plays such as The Tempest, Arden of Faversham, A Woman Killed with Kindness, and A Game at Chess; the histories of familiar games such as cards, backgammon, and chess; less familiar ones, like Game of the Goose; and even a mixed-reality theater videogame.

An introduction to the book "Chess: 80 Classic Problems: One Move and You're Dead," by Leonard Barden and Erwin Brecher, is presented in which the author discusses the several tactical patterns, puzzles, and winning moves in chess.

Why do groups exchange? Why do the Arapesh say 'Your own pigs, your own yams which you have piled up, you may not eat' (Rosman and Rubel 2004)? You must give them to others. Malinowski also raised this question, asking why men give their finest yams to their brothers-in-law rather than keep them (1965: 188-9)? Why does Lévi-Strauss argue that groups must give their sisters and their daughters to others, rather than keeping them for themselves (1969b)? The answer to all of these questions is the same. By giving your own yams, your own pigs, your sisters and your own daughters to others, you create networks of social relationships, since the rule of reciprocity compels them to give you an equal return. The things distributed at ceremonies are clues to the nature of the social structural relationship of exchangers. Before one discusses social structure and exchange, one must first deal with the concept of structure. Structuralism as a theoretical concept has had a long history in fields like linguistics, philosophy and biology. Piaget contrasted structuralism with 'the atomistic tendency to reduce wholes to their prior elements' (Piaget 1970: 4). Structuralism's most famous exponent in anthropology, by far, was Claude Lévi-Strauss who applied the theoretical framework of linguistics to the analysis of culture. The linguistic concepts which Lévi-Strauss drew upon were those of Ferdinand de Saussure, Troubetskoy and most importantly Roman Jakobson, who was Lévi-Strauss's friend and colleague. Lévi-Strauss was also influenced by the theoretical views of Franz Boas (a debt he acknowledges in Structural Anthropology (1963a: 6ff.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A chapter of the book "Everything Other Than Chess" is presented. It offers instructions on how to play and win the game called "Ants and the Cake," in which two groups of ants will fight for a single piece of cake. It also discusses the object of the game, the additional equipment needed apart from the chessboard with chess pieces, and the board setup.

Chapter VII of the book "ELINOR WYLLYS: OR, THE YOUNG FOLK OF LONGBRIDGE" is presented. It mentions another event occurred at the parlour of Miss Wyllys and cites the arrival of Mary Van Alstyne and Mrs. St. Leger. It also highlights the departure of Miss Emma Taylor, along with her brother-in-law in order to watch a concert and states the conversation between Mr. Wyllys and the rest of the casts while playing chess.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses the games featured within the book that are designed to be played on a chessboard with chess pieces.

The table of contents for the book "Chess: 80 Classic Problems: One Move and You're Dead," by Leonard Barden and Erwin Brecher, is presented.

The tale "The Pope's Game of Chess" is presented.