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Meaning of "kriegspiel" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD KRIEGSPIEL

From German Kriegsspiel war game.
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PRONUNCIATION OF KRIEGSPIEL

kriegspiel  [ˈkriːɡˌspiːl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KRIEGSPIEL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Kriegspiel is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KRIEGSPIEL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of kriegspiel in the English dictionary

The definition of kriegspiel in the dictionary is a form of war game in which symbols representing military formations are moved about on maps. Other definition of kriegspiel is a variation of chess in which each player has his own board and men and does not see his opponent's board and men. The moves are regulated by an umpire on a third board out of sight of both players.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KRIEGSPIEL


appeal
əˈpiːl
bonspiel
ˈbɒnˌspiːl
glockenspiel
ˈɡlɒkənˌspiːl
kinderspiel
ˈkɪndəˌspiːl
langspiel
ˈlɑːŋˌʃpiːl
peal
piːl
peel
piːl
Peele
piːl
repeal
rɪˈpiːl
Singspiel
ˈzɪŋʃpiːl
soutpiel
ˈsaʊtˌpiːl
speel
spiːl
spiel
ʃpiːl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KRIEGSPIEL

kremlin
Kremlinologist
Kremlinology
Krems
kreplach
kreutzer
kreuzer
krewe
Kriemhild
Kriemhilde
krill
Krim
krimmer
Krio
Kriol
kris

WORDS THAT END LIKE KRIEGSPIEL

ariel
Biel
clumber spaniel
cocker spaniel
Daniel
diel
Ezekiel
field spaniel
Gabriel
Kiel
materiel
riel
Saint-Mihiel
spaniel
springer spaniel
Sussex spaniel
Tibetan spaniel
Uriel
water spaniel
Welsh springer spaniel

Synonyms and antonyms of kriegspiel in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «kriegspiel» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KRIEGSPIEL

Find out the translation of kriegspiel to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of kriegspiel from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «kriegspiel» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

kriegspiel
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Kriegspiel
570 millions of speakers

English

kriegspiel
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

kriegspiel
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

kriegspiel
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

kriegspiel
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Kriegspiel
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

kriegspiel
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Kriegspiel
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kriegspiel
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krieg
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

kriegspiel
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

kriegspiel
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kriegspiel
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Kriegspiel
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

kriegspiel
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

क्रेजीस्पेल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kriegspiel
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Kriegspiel
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kriegspiel
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

kriegspiel
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

kriegspiel
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Kriegspiel
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kriegspiel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kriegspiel
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kriegspiel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of kriegspiel

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KRIEGSPIEL»

The term «kriegspiel» is normally little used and occupies the 149.786 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «KRIEGSPIEL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about kriegspiel

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KRIEGSPIEL»

Discover the use of kriegspiel in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to kriegspiel and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Verdy's Free Kriegspiel Including the Victorian Army's 1896 ...
Using minimal rules and tables, the game aimed to produce realistic games based on military reality as decided by the umpire.This edition includes the Victorian Army's 1896 War Game Kriegspiel rules.
John Curry, 2008
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Kriegspiel: a novel of tomorrow's Europe
Intent on restoring Germany's destiny as head of a new European world order, General Karl Blacksturm moves to seize control of the government, and it is up to 195th Brigade commander Col. Alexander Stern to stop him.
Todd Stone, 1993
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Kriegspiel: The War Game
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Francis Hindes Groome, 2012
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Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges
his opponent as well. Thus, in general, during a Kriegspiel game each player knows what he knows, but he does not know what his opponent knows. Kriegspiel is a game interesting in several ways. First, it is based on the same rules as chess ...
Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz, 2003
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Adversarial Reasoning: Computational Approaches to Reading ...
We now describe our own work on the game of Kriegspiel chess.* Kriegspiel chess [20, 21] is an imperfect-information variant of chess that was developed by a Prussian military officer in 1824 and became popular as a military training ...
Alexander Kott, William M. McEneaney, 2006
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Chess Variants
Frankenstein suggested in 1903 a variation of the game where one player sees the board and another plays Kriegspiel. To make the game fair, the first player has to play with fewer pieces. Frankenstein proposed two variants: • Pickle pot - the ...
By Wikipedians
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Advances in Computer Games: 12th International Conference, ...
We use Kriegspiel (invisible chess) as an example. The game is identical to chess, except players can only see their own pieces and need to rely on messages from a referee to figure out where the opponent is. We give an algorithm for ...
H. Jaap van den Herik, Pieter Spronck, 2010
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Kriegspiel: The War Game
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Groome Francis Hindes 1851-1902, 2013
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German English Words: A Popular Dictionary of German Words ...
This entry suggested by Christiane Leißner. • “We then proceeded to Kriegspiel, according to the mysterious ideas of those in authority over us.” H. G. Wells, The World SetFree, 1914, p. 69. krimmer, crimmer krimmer, crimmer krimmer, crimmer  ...
Robbin D. Knapp, 2005
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Kriegspiel: Chess Under Uncertainty
This is the first book ever on Kriegspiel, even though it originated in London in the 1890s. From the preface: "By emphasizing logic & by adding an element of uncertainty, Kriegspiel is chess for humans in the 21st century.
David H. Li, 1994

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KRIEGSPIEL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term kriegspiel is used in the context of the following news items.
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Ten quotes by Dr. John Nash you will definitely Love to Hear
I was introduced to Go and Kriegspiel, and also to an ingenious topological game which we called Nash in honor of the inventor. -John Milnor ... «Bihar Prabha, May 15»
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Has chess got anything to do with war?
This, perhaps, is why German military officers in the 19th Century devised a peculiar board game known as Kriegspiel - or "wargame" - as a ... «BBC News, May 15»
3
'Tis the Season for Toy Soldiers
A simple Kriegspiel develops. In this way, the toy soldier models the real world better than any other toy. The world is and always will be a place ... «New York Sun, Nov 14»
4
Standing in an Adversary's Shoes
... a “war game,” what the German General Staff called a kriegspiel or simulated combat, that was conducted in the Pentagon shortly thereafter. «Consortium News, Nov 14»
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Introducing In The Virtual Trenches
... to what I thought of the Avalon Hill boardgame Kriegspiel¸ a game whose alleged designer, Tom Shaw, later insisted was “misunderstood. «Strategy Page, Aug 14»
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Colleagues applaud Lloyd Shapley's Nobel win
Ferguson said he met Shapley in the early '60s because of their mutual interest in Kriegspiel, a variation of chess where a player only sees his ... «UC Los Angeles, Oct 12»
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The Girl Who Fell From The Sky by Simon Mawer: review
Underlying everything are the motifs of two games: piggy in the middle, with Sutro as the helpless “piggy”; and Kriegspiel, a form of chess in ... «Telegraph.co.uk, May 12»
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De la Françafrique à la France sans l'Afrique et inversement
Q – Mais, il y a bien en vainqueur dans ce kriegspiel ? Charlotte Sawyer – Oui, l'Otan ! Autrement dit: nous les États-Unis ! Dès avant la fin des ... «geostrategie.com, Apr 12»
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The Fundamental Differences between Board and Card Games and …
More than a century ago we had a variation of chess called Kriegspiel where each player could only see his own pieces and a referee told a ... «Gamasutra, Feb 12»
10
A Beautiful Mind
Games had been a custom in Fine Hall since the 1930s, and by the 1940s the standards were kriegspiel and Go. In Nash's first year, mathematician Ralph Fox ... «Vanity Fair, Nov 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Kriegspiel [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/kriegspiel>. Apr 2024 ».
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