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Prussian officers play at a game called Kriegspiel, or the war game.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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Kriegspiel, which is a rendition of Guy Debord's original
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Service is studying and planning a mighty "Kriegspiel" against the endemic diseases in their respective strongholds -- malaria, typhoid, tuberculosis, and the other needless destroyers of life which we have always with us.
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"Seemingly at one bound Mr. Groome has taken rank amongst the most promising novelists of the day, so full is 'Kriegspiel' of interest, of stirring incident, and of vivid and varied sketches of men and manners from contemporary English life."
A Master of Mysteries L. T. Meade 1884
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I succeeded, a long time ago, in presenting the basics of war on a rather simple board game… The surprises of this Kriegspiel seem inexhaustible; and I fear that this may well be the only one of my works that anyone will dare acknowledge as having some value.
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I succeeded, a long time ago, in presenting the basics of war on a rather simple board game… The surprises of this Kriegspiel seem inexhaustible; and I fear that this may well be the only one of my works that anyone will dare acknowledge as having some value.
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Let those who advocate this CC play a game of enlarged chess-Kriegspiel war games with me, loser walks.
A Review of Chalmers Johnson's Nemesis - The Last Days of the American Republic 2007
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The W.O.P.R. computer asks, "Do you want to play a game?" and the protagonist focuses on the "play" aspect... but then we see that the game is actually a "wargame," which like the original Kriegspiel isn't about play at all.
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The Kriegspiel, or War Game, is a Prussian invention, and a highly practical one at that.
Operation Sea Lion Cox, Richard 1974
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Kriegspiel was played; essays written and discussed, recommendations made as to ammunition and food supply; use of artillery in attack and defense; the proper method of employing the telegraph in the war; and a thousand and one things relative to the machine militaire were gone over.
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