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Peter Gelman wrote on Thu, Mar 11, 2004 05:38 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Great web site! You might be interest to know that today, March 4, 2004,
Emma Young, writer for the Guardian, offers an interesting article about
research in military theory using *chess variants*:

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,13026,1161128,00.html

Here's some quotes: 

'But neither group is studying standard games. By modifying key
variables, such as the number of moves allowed each turn, or whether one
player can see all of the other's pieces, they are investigating the
relative importance of a host of factors that translate to the
battlefield, such as numerical superiority, a quick advance and the use
of
stealth.'  ***

'These games, and other variations on regular play, led the team to a
clear conclusion: being stronger and having more 'battlespace
information' than your opponent are both less valuable when there is
little information available overall to both sides - but the advantage of
a fast pace remains.'

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