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Asian Art Museum's Michael Knight explains the connection of military strategies to board games.

A groundbreaking exhibition, Power and Glory was the first exhibition to focus on the full range of Ming dynasty (1368-1644) court arts. More than 200 treasures were on view, including gold and jade, paintings and porcelains, from China’s greatest museums, many never before seen outside of China. The works illustrated how this ancient dynasty surpassed the technology of its time to become a global leader in maritime power, mass production and artistic accomplishment.

Organized by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the Palace Museum, the Nanjing Municipal Museum and the Shanghai Museum.

So does this mean I should be amazing at military strategy for fighting real was? Presumably computer games such as age of empires are simply more advanced versions of these board games and seeing as I am spent way much time playing that (and I'm rather good at it) I should be pretty good at real life military strategy... too bad I'm a pacifist!

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Submitted by Matt Jones on Fri, 11/27/2009 - 04:00.

lol wut?

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Submitted by Davis Lab on Thu, 04/02/2009 - 17:57.

I never thought that games originated from military poeple practicing moves and strategies. Now the games available are so varied, but when I think about it, most of them are still about trying to win against an opponent. -Mandy

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Submitted by Davis Lab on Sat, 01/24/2009 - 13:55.

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00:00:04 So, there are various kinds of board games that were played at the court. Board games in China, board games everywhere, start off as a part of

00:00:14 military strategies and, in fact, as such, they continued to be studies in military strategies, so you are playing these board games, you are meant to be thinking not only of the board game, but also

00:00:24 military strategy, how to win a war! So, there is that great backgammon board which would have been one of the great games of strategy. So, any game of strategy like that would have been

00:00:33 played at court but that one was a particularly wonderful one because there's a wonderful example of cloisonne, that inset metalwork.