Kriegspiel -- About

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In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the Society
for Strategic and Historical Games. The Society had an immediate goal:
to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already
designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of
Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's
game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a game board
of 500 squares arranged in rows of 20 by 25 squares.



"The surprises of this Kriegspiel
seem to be inexhaustible," he confessed later in his book Panegyric. "It
might be the only thing in all my work--I'm afraid to admit--that one
might dare say has some value."

In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the Society
for Strategic and Historical Games. The Society had an immediate goal:
to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already
designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of
Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's
game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players on a game board
of 500 squares arranged in rows of 20 by 25 squares.



"The surprises of this Kriegspiel
seem to be inexhaustible," he confessed later in his book Panegyric. "It
might be the only thing in all my work--I'm afraid to admit--that one
might dare say has some value."

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