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  Ancient Games Blog Rules, Mechanics and how I would update for modern play The game I have chosen is chess. According to chess.com, the game of chess is thought to have originated out of an Indian game called Chaturanga before the 600s AD, evolving into the game we know today in the 16 th century, ( https://www.chess.com/article/view/history-of-chess ) . Chess is played on a 64 square board of alternating black and white squares, organised in ranks, 8 numbers and 8 letters (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H). Layout of a chess board, with starting positions of each piece. ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AAA_SVG_Chessboard_and_chess_pieces_06.svg ) Players have 16 pieces each, pieces include the King, the Queen, 2 Rooks/Castles, 2 Bishops, 2 Knights and 8 Pawns, and either play as the white pieces, or the black pieces. Players take turns moving a piece of their choosing around the board, with the player using the white pieces moving first to ...

  Cognitive benefits of gaming Luke Noone C22532639   The article I chose to research is called ‘A large scale test of the gaming enhancement hypothesis’ ( https://peerj.com/articles/2710.pdf ), written by Andrew K. Przybylski and John C. Wang. The article was published on the 16 th of November 2016. There goal was to determine how a young person’s gaming experience affected there reasoning performance and whether gaming improved a young person’s cognitive ability.   To do this, they conducted a study of 1,847 school aged children over a four-day period. Questions asked during the test included self-reported play behaviour to determine whether the participant frequently played video games and which type of games they played, action games, multiplayer online games or strategy games. They were then instructed to complete the 60-item Raven’s Standard Progressive Matrices Plus (RPM) task ( https://psycho-tests.com/test/raven-matrixes-test ), which measures deduct...