@Deckard,
Deckard;150166 wrote:Competitions can be divided into two types: games and wars. (Are there other types?) The only difference between a game and a war is that in a game everyone agrees upon the rules of the game whereas in a war there is no such agreement. Do you agree with this? If not, how would you define the difference between a game and a war?
Quoting my own post here because I want to amend it.
The existing words "game" and "war" possibly don't fit into the definitions I want to give them.
Game is the more general term. It is fruitless to try to convince everyone that we should never think of wars as games or games as wars.
What I want to do is to make a distinction between:
1) games in which all players agree upon the rules
2) games in which there is no such agreement
And possibly even coin a new words to signify the two types of games.
Marat;153724 wrote:War is direct robbery.
Game is wager (Gambit).
Marat we were speaking the same language from the start. With the concessions I have made.
A wager is an example of 1
Robbery is an example of 2
