Taming business gaming

Author: Sykes Pam  

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd

ISSN: 0040-0912

Source: Education + Training, Vol.20, Iss.1, 1993-12, pp. : 4-5

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Abstract

Once upon a time The war game, as originally developed, was of a free or unstructured type in which the umpire made on-the-spot decisions over problems arising during play, and also made an evaluation at the end of the game. The power which he wielded under these circumstances was criticised and, as a result, the war game designers decided to develop new rules and to make the existing ones much stronger. Thus in the late 19th century a German, Von Reisswitz, produced what is now known as a rigid war game or Kriegspiel. This is a game where there are detailed, non-deviating rules with the provision for chance events produced by the throw of a die, spin of a wheel, random number, etc.