As van Creveld (2013) observes in his history of war games, games and war exhibit certain similarities.
From the ancient Chinese Go, via various iterations of chess to contemporary digital simulation games, or from classical Roman gladiator battles, via martial-arts competitions to today’s first-person shooters, the skills employed and the structures limiting participants’ actions and perceptions point to a variety of equivalences and connections between the two fields of practice. Games and war have always stood in a close relationship to one another. Special Issue - War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play by Holger Pötzsch, Philip Hammond Approaching the War/Game Nexus
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