The Royal Game of Ur, from Ur, southern Iraq, which is dated to about 2600-2400 B.C. The board game found at the site of Shahr-i Sokhta in Iran (not pictured) is dated to around the ...

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BOARD GAMES have long fascinated artificial-intelligence (AI) researchers. They have clear rules, well-defined playing fields and objective winners and losers. This makes them perfect “sandpits ...