For my final paper I want to do an essay about poetry as a form of explaining games, and connecting them to the idea of love –such as in chess– by looking at the Poem Sachs d’Amour, and also looking at how poetry connects games like wei’qui in China, such as in the poetry we…

There is a reason why the Ancient Greeks are portrayed in history as a bunch of wine drunkards, because they were. A famous quote by Greek philosopher and historian Thucydides around the 5th century BCE states, “The peoples of the Mediterranean began to emerge from barbarism when they learned to cultivate the olive and the…

I really liked how this book was organized. It started out well by giving me a good perception of how gender roles in Asia –particularly China– work. It is interesting to think of how different cultures portray gender differences. The way women are portrayed in China as the emotional caretakers of the household, while it…

The book Birth of the Chess Queen revolves itself around one central theme, how did the Chess Queen become the powerhouse she is today? I find it interesting how the transition from the Visor and simple pieces in Islamic culture transformed throughout Europe over time, slowly making their way to Northwest Europe. The two central…