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Thu, 30 Sep 2004

Games as meditation

Just as Kendo can be a meditative discipline, so can, uh, Zendo. Or almost any game. We have the Inner Game of Tennis; why not the Inner Game of Hearts?

Of course, people have known this about Go for a long time. In principle, it applies to Chess as well, although in practice it seems to have the opposite effect.

Entered 12:22 [/games/ludism] permalink

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