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How not to play

Here are seven ways to sidestep doing as you’re told in a game. But strangely, they seem to be as much a part of playing as the game itself.

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Remote romance and the common cold

Getting creatively romantic due to a virus sounds all too contemporary, but our archives show what socially distanced seduction looked like seven decades ago.

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How to play with people who are better than you

It’s frustrating to lose a game to the same player every time. But help is at hand. Discover the ways you can make a game respond dynamically to participants so everyone has a chance of winning.

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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • Chessmen (chess pieces) in the form of Saracens and Crusaders.
  • A queen chess piece next to a condom on a chess board with the diagonal statement in Spanish 'Queen takes control'; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Ana Busto/Caterina Borelli, ca. 1994.
  • Men gathered around a table as Philidor plays a game of chess wearing a blindfold. Engraving.
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