Games have often been used to learn key strategic concepts. Three of the oldest, and arguably some of the best, games for learning strategic concepts (and tactics) are the card game of Poker, and the board games of Chess and Go (also known as "Weiqi" in China, "Baduk" in Korea, and "Igo" in Japan).
Poker is the best. No question. But it teaches different lessons, those about judging others. But it is not a perfect game either because there is no possibility for cooperations within it. Winning supporters, a huge part of real-life strategy but not of poker. The game of poker is great, perhaps the best, but it doesn't teach the lessons of complementary oppsosites of the natural balance.
I mostly agree, except I wouldn't say "Poker is the best" - each game can teach something, and something different than the other games. There are some board games that can teach cooperation, but sadly they are lesser known games such as "Pandemic" < https://www.mindgames.ca/pandemic-board-game/ > and arguably the semi-well-known game of "Risk."
BTW, another semi-well-known 2-player board-game that can teach strategy and critical thinking is "Stratego" - and I'm sure there are many others, but they are lesser known, at least I don't know them or much about them, but I do know there are plenty of board games sold by many companies if somebody wants to spend time looking for lesser known games.
Interesting.
Games have often been used to learn key strategic concepts. Three of the oldest, and arguably some of the best, games for learning strategic concepts (and tactics) are the card game of Poker, and the board games of Chess and Go (also known as "Weiqi" in China, "Baduk" in Korea, and "Igo" in Japan).
Poker is the best. No question. But it teaches different lessons, those about judging others. But it is not a perfect game either because there is no possibility for cooperations within it. Winning supporters, a huge part of real-life strategy but not of poker. The game of poker is great, perhaps the best, but it doesn't teach the lessons of complementary oppsosites of the natural balance.
I mostly agree, except I wouldn't say "Poker is the best" - each game can teach something, and something different than the other games. There are some board games that can teach cooperation, but sadly they are lesser known games such as "Pandemic" < https://www.mindgames.ca/pandemic-board-game/ > and arguably the semi-well-known game of "Risk."
BTW, another semi-well-known 2-player board-game that can teach strategy and critical thinking is "Stratego" - and I'm sure there are many others, but they are lesser known, at least I don't know them or much about them, but I do know there are plenty of board games sold by many companies if somebody wants to spend time looking for lesser known games.