Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game in which blocks representing bodies of soldiers are moved on a map: designed to illustrate the art of war.
- noun A game designed to teach the principles of strategy and tactics.
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- noun A
boardgame used to train militarytactics andstrategy - noun A variant of
chess in which players cannot see their opponent's pieces
Etymologies
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Examples
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All notes are by the translator.) [1] Also known as kriegspiel, this is the cabinet game that Guy Debord invented (circa
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Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play kriegspiel, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.
Uller Uprising Piper, H. Beam 1952
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Once, on a three-months 'reaction-drive voyage from Yggdrasill to Loki, he had taught a couple of professors of extraterrestrial zoology to play _kriegspiel_, and before the end of the trip, he was being horrified by the callous disregard they showed for casualties.
Uller Uprising H. Beam Piper 1934
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To Mr W. was broached the idea: "I believe that if one set up a few obstacles on the floor, volumes of the British Encyclopedia and so forth, to make a Country, and moved these soldiers and guns about, one could have rather a good game, a kind of kriegspiel." ...
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More modern examples, in Germany in 1812, the kriegspiel (war game) was developed by the Prussian army.
Tiny Subversions Darius Kazemi 2010
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a military position as a player of kriegspiel could wish to have submitted to him.
The Great Boer War Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
qms commented on the word kriegspiel
New games have an authentic feel
And strive to be viscerally real,
With corpses galore
And fountains of gore
Replacing old cerebral kriegspiel.
April 13, 2019