“Apple’s Steve Jobs was a chess player,” Jonny Evans writes for Apple Must. “He didn’t just play any kind of chess, but a far more complex version of the game called Kriegspiel.”
“‘Apple founder Steve Jobs was a Kriegsspiel fan; in the early days of the company he’d play games with engineer Daniel Kottke,’ explains David M. Ewalt in his book, Of Dice and Men. Jobs’ liking for the game is also confirmed in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography,” Evans writes. “It looks like he really enjoyed it.”
Evans writes, “What is Kriegspiel? The game is a little like a combination of Chess and Battleship…”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We did know Steve Jobs played it and we have played the game. It’s not bad. Evans idea is great and we second it wholeheartedly: “One thing you can’t find is an app for Macs or iPhones that enables you to play it. I think that’s a shame as the game lends itself to online two-player struggles. Whoever developed a Kriegspiel app could even stick a fee on it and donate their income to cancer research. I think that could be a nice gesture of remembrance of the game’s famous player.”
Yes! There should be an app for this! Why has no one capitalized on this opportunity yet?
I used to play Kriegspiel when I and my friends were in Junior High School back in the early 60s! It was a much more battle like version of Chess where the opponents had limited military intelligence about their enemy, such as which pieces were where and what was moved. It took a minimum three people to play: the opponents and a referee who could tell the combatants when a pawn capture could take place but not which piece was taken, and then say “No” when a player tried to move through an occupied square, and “Hell NO!” when the player tried an illegal move on his own board! Our group of four boys and four girls had a lot of fun playing that and bridge.
Need to clarify which version? Take note, the single or double “S” matters.
– Kriegsspiel (strict)
– Kriegsspiel (free)
– Kriegspiel (board type)
– Kriegspiel (online type)
– Kriegspiel (chess variant) – Most likely this one.
Apparently these are all different types of games.
Please correct if I’m wrong. Pulled info from Internet and we all know that’s always right./s
Why not do an app with every version?
Battleship seems more fun and engaging, plus you don’t need a 3rd person, but whatever floats your boat…
Or sinks it.
Apple should naje the App… in memory of Steve.
Yes, Apple should naje it immediately. They could make a lot of money najing stuff. The sage naje is what they should call it. Yo, jimbo – what do you think? Should they naje it or not?
Naje away, I say. Make it so. Ennaje.
Berry punny.. berry verry punny.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
And… here is a little clue on my typo.. since u cant stretch your mind that far…
Naje……i meant to type ‘make’ …….And on ios is very easy to type adjecent keys without realizing.
N is adjacent to M
Then A
Then J is adjecent to K
Then E
Which takes me to my ususal and urgent criticism of Apples spell check and more so Apple’s AI and its jurassic contextual understing of words (for which i have recieved insults and viloent reactions from dogmatized fanboys) …..
AI and contextual understanding …This is a HUGE problem if Apple Does not double up on it and put massive effort to catch up. Competition will eat them up alive… specially that AI is where things are headed. Big time.
Type ‘apple should Naje it” in google…
See what it suggest as possible corrections..
Proof is in the pudding… go sample it.
Yo, Jimbo – I figured out that naje was a mistype of make.
I knew that. It was obvious from the moment I saw your comment. I just wanted to have some fun – no need to go into numerous face saving explanations.
No insult intended, just made fun of your mistype and/or unintentional non-autocorrect.
Cheers
Alex.
👍👍 ✌️
I actually did google that, and the first result (if you didn’t let Google autocorrect it, that is) was this discussion thread. And I’d love to naje me some pudding right now – that sounds yummy! 😀
And its Yojimbo…. not Yo, jimbo ..fyi
Yo, Jimbo… I knew that too, yojimbo007.
Q branch (aka Alex)