Seven Games
A Human History. W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
A brief summary of Seven Games
A chronicle of checkers, chess, Go, backgammon, poker, Scrabble, and bridge—seven games that have impacted society and spawned amazing creations of artificial intelligence, but above all, inspired incredible human achievements by those that have mastered each game.
Key insights in Seven Games
Who should read Seven Games
Board game fans • playing card enthusiasts • historians • computer scientists • those wondering how long popular games have been played • anyone curious about human and AI interactions in gameplaying
About the author of Seven Games
Oliver Roeder’s PhD is in economics, with a concentration on game theory. As a journalist, his work has appeared in numerous publications, including The Economist, The New York Times, and Slate. In addition, Roeder is a senior writer for FiveThirtyEight, a website dedicated to statistics, economics, and politics, and has written a book of puzzles titled The Riddler.
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