261 résultats pour "game"
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Games.
For most of human history, a game could not gain much popularity unless it was fairly easy for players to make their own equipment. The invention of printing (whichoccurred in the mid-1400s in the West) made this process easier, but it was not until the advances of the 18th-century Industrial Revolution that it became possible tomass-produce many new varieties of games. Twentieth-century technological advances such as the invention of plastic and the computer revolution led to the creationof mor...
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Game Theory
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INTRODUCTION
Game Theory, mathematical analysis of any situation involving a conflict of interest, with the intent of indicating the optimal choices that, under given conditions, will
lead to a desired outcome.
C Zero-Sum Games A game is said to be a zero-sum game if the total amount of payoffs at the end of the game is zero. Thus, in a zero-sum game the total amount won is exactly equal tothe amount lost. In economic contexts, zero-sum games are equivalent to saying that no production or destruction of goods takes place within the “game economy” inquestion. Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern showed in 1944 that any n-person non-zero-sum game can be reduced to an n + 1 zero-sum game, and that such n...
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Electronic Games.
arcade game of all time. With Pizza Time Theaters legitimizing the idea of arcades and hits such as Ms. Pac-Man , Asteroids , Donkey Kong , Tempest , Frogger , and Defender bringing new excitement to gaming, the coin-operated video game business boomed. In 1981 Americans spent 75,000 person-years and $5 billion playing video games at anestimated 4,300 arcades in the United States. Many popular arcade games also were translated for use on the Atari 2600 and its chief rivals in the homemarket—M...
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Olympic Games.
the next decade nearly all the ISFs abolished the distinction between amateurs and professionals, accepting so-called open Games. One of the most visible examples of the policy change came in 1992, when professional players from the National Basketball Association (NBA) were permitted to play inthe Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain. Professionals from the National Hockey League (NHL) became eligible to participate beginning with the 1998 Winter Olympics inNagano, Japan. V CEREMONIES The Olymp...
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Bridge (game).
IV DUPLICATE BRIDGE Duplicate bridge is a variety of contract bridge in which the element of luck affecting the final score is greatly decreased and the factor of skill is correspondinglyincreased. Duplicate is virtually the only game now played in championship bridge tournaments and matches. Duplicate bridge can be played by any number of players divided into pairs or teams. Each pair competes against all (or in some duplicate tournaments against half) theother pairs. The cards are all dealt...
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BIOGRAPHIE VASCO DE GAMA
craintes des hauts-fonds et des bancs de sable. Cette petite flotte était armée comme pour la guerre, en effet elle était équipée de canons. Il y avait entre 170 et 200hommes à bord, marins et soldats, dont 18 criminels condamnés à mort. Ces condamnés devaient essayer de lier contact avec les populations qui seraient rencontréesau cours de l'expédition, et s'ils survivaient, leurs crimes leur seraient pardonnés. Le recrutement des marins a été difficile car les voyage fait peur même au plusintré...
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ENCYCLOPEDIE: Gama, Vasco de
Le grand voyage Il s'agit maintenant de gagner l'Inde : Vasco de Gama est chargé de la nouvelle expédition . Le 12 juillet 1497 , il quitte Lisbonne avec 180 hommes sur trois nefs et une caravelle , et emmène un bateau entrepôt contenant des vivres pour trois ans . Après un arrêt aux îles du Cap Vert , il trace sa route au large de l'Afrique pour éviter les alizés soufflant du sud-est :trois mois de navigation , la plus longue t...
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The Summer Games of 1992 - sport.
In the most ambitious undertaking of all, a stretch of rundown warehouses and abandoned factories beside the long-neglected Mediterranean waterfront wastransformed into a sparkling new district of apartments, shopping areas, and palmetto-lined promenades. During the games, the area served as the Olympic athletes'village, where, for the first time at any games, organizers offered accommodations to competitors and their coaches free of charge. After the games the apartmentswere to be sold to help...
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Cards and Card Games.
Certain games have developed that are difficult to categorize, especially games that use special decks of cards. Contributed By:Gene HochmanMicrosoft ® Encarta ® 2009. © 1993-2008 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
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Golf.
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Golf, outdoor game in which individual players use specially designed
caddie or caddy. (Caddies, once an integral feature of the game, have now been replaced on many courses by motorized carts and pull carts.) In England the game was made popular by the attention given it by James VI of Scotland, later James I of England, and his son Charles I. In the 18th century the first golf associations were established. They included the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers (founded 1744) in Edinburgh, Scotland;the Saint Andrews Society of Golfers (1754) in Saint Andrew...
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hunger games
épouse la forme de mes pieds. J'enfile un pantalon, une chemise, je fourre ma longue natte brune dans une casquette et j'attrape ma gibecière. Sur la table, sous un bol en bois qui le protège des rats affamés et des chats, m'attend un très joli petit fromage de chèvre, enveloppé dans des feuilles de basilic. C'est mon cadeau de la part de Prim pour le jour de la Moisson. Je le range dans ma poche en me glissant dehors. À cette heure de la matinée, notre quartier du district Douze, surno...
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FOOTBALL
a match
two teams playing against each other in a 90-minute game of football
a pitch
the area where footballers play a match
a referee
the person who makes sure that the players follow the rules.
full-time the point of the game when the referee blows the final whistle and the match is over. Normally after 90 minutes and any added injury or stoppage time injury time also called stoppage time, added minutes at the end of the regular playing time at half-time or full-time. Entirely at the referee’s discretion and normally indicated by an official on the sideline (or touchline) extra time if a match has no winner at full-time, 2 x 15 minutes of extra time may be played in some competitions o...
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- Vasco da Gama - explorer.
- Vasco da Gama - geographie.
- Larsen Pitches Perfect Game.
- Lou Gehrig Lou Gehrig (1903-1941), American professional baseball player, also known as the Iron Horse because he established a record for the number of consecutive games played by a professional baseball player, appearing in 2130 games in succession from 1925 to 1939.
- Game designer - Spontanée
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College Football Bowl Games.
1995 Alabama 24Ohio State 17 1996 Tennessee 20Ohio State 14 1997 Tennessee 48Northwestern 28 1998 Florida 21Penn State 6 1999 Michigan 45Arkansas 31 2000 Michigan 37Florida 34 2001 1 Michigan 31Auburn 28 2002 Tennessee 45Michigan 17 2003 Auburn 13Penn State 9 2004 Georgia 34Purdue 27 2005 Iowa 30Louisiana State 25 2006 Wisconsin 24Auburn 10 2007 Wisconsin 17Arkansas 14 2008 Michigan 41Florida 35 1. In 2001 its name was changed from Citrus Bowl to Capital One Bowl. . Champs Sports Bowl.Year Winn...
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- Red Grange's Greatest Game.
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Hunger games
se retrouve face à des adversaires surentraînés qui se sont préparés toute leur vie. Elle a pour seuls atouts son instinct et un mentor, Haymitch Abernathy, qui gagna les Hunger Games il y a des années mais n'est plus désormais qu'une épave alcoolique. Pour espérer pouvoir revenir un jour chez elle, Katniss va devoir, une fois dans l'arène, faire des choix impossibles entre la survie et son humanité, entre la vie et l'amour... Mon avis: Ce film est exellent, l'idée est révolutionnaire, un jeux o...
- Olympic Games
- Carl Lewis Carl Lewis, born in 1961, American track-and-field athlete, who won a total of nine gold medals at the Olympic Games in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 1996, including four straight gold medal performances in the long jump.
- Critique du film Hunger Games
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee Jackie Joyner-Kersee, born in 1962, American track-and-field athlete, who won the heptathlon event (an all-around event) at the Olympic Games in 1988 and 1992.
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- Olympic Games Greek The principal athletic meeting of the ancient Greeks held every four years.
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Analyse de la bande audio de Phone Game
Phone Game, réalisé p ar Joel Schumacher, est un thriller américain mettant principalement en scène Coli n Far rell, et Forest Wh itaker . L ’objet de cet exposé sera l ’analyse de la bande -son du métrage, de la musique, aux effets, en passant par les bruitages. Nous verrons les particula rités de cell e-ci, dans chaque acte du film (Problématisation, Déroulement de l ’histoire, et dénouement), et tenterons d ’en déduire un sens précis . Une introduc...
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Vasco de Gama
repères. D’autres besoins sont superflus, comme les bijoux ou encore les appareils électroménagers sophistiqués. Les magasins de grandes distributions font de l’homme un robot qui doit sans cesse planifier ses tâches, s’organiser pour, par exemple, faire des provisions pour deux ou trois semaines, ce qui l’oblige à penser au lendemain. En outre, Karl Marx se pose réellement contre la publicité, comme en témoignent ses propos : « La production ne produit pas seulement un objet pour un sujet, mais...
- Pythian Games Greek A sacred rite enacted in ancient Greece to honor the ancient serpentmonster, Python, slain by the god Apollo.
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The Impact of the Console Nintendo WII in our Society
The firm Nintendo is for all players what Apple or Microsoft is to computers, that is to say, a pioneer in its field: the video games. It was in 1980 that the firm Japan has launched in the market for video game consoles. To date, it has more than 400 million consoles sold on all platforms. The Nintendo WII has not gone unnoticed and managed to cause followers to consumers, now ready to book several weeks in advan...
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Magic in the 1980 NBA Finals.
Abdul-Jabbar racked up 33 points and 14 rebounds as the Lakers won game one in Los Angeles, 109-102. Erving responded in game two with 23 points, 7 assists,and 5 blocked shots as the 76ers evened the series with a 107-104 victory. The series flipped back to Philadelphia. The Lakers won game three, 111-101, and the76ers triumphed in the fourth contest, 105-102. Abdul-Jabbar poured in 40 points in game five, a 108-103 Lakers win that put Los Angeles ahead in the series, 3-2,needing only one win in...
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Poker.
After the ante and the initial deal, the first round of betting starts with the player to the left of the dealer. This bettor can check (make no bet), make a bet, or fold. To stay in the game, subsequent bettors must call (match the current bet) or raise (increase the total bet). A round of betting ends when no player makes a further bet or a set limit of turns around the table has been reached. In the next round of betting, the player to the left of the bettor that started the last round o...
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One Hundred Years of Olympics.
Getting over the Hurdles The next three Olympics attracted more athletes and saw stronger performances but otherwise did not measure up to Athens. The 1900 Paris Olympics were upstagedby the concurrent Exposition Universelle and were spread out over two months. The 1904 games in remote St. Louis were subordinated to the Louisiana PurchaseExhibition; over three-fourths of the competitors were Americans, and even Coubertin did not attend. The 1908 London Olympics were also overshadowed byanother...
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Chess.
There are two standard methods of recording chess moves: the algebraic system and the descriptive system. In both systems, the pieces are designated by capitalinitials: K for king, Q for queen, R for rook, B for bishop, and N for knight. The initial P for pawn is used in the descriptive system only. Castling is noted as either 0-0(“short” castling on the king’s side) or 0-0-0 (“long” castling on the queen’s side). Each square is part of both a file and a rank, and in the algebraic system, that u...
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Messier Lifts the Curse.
Swept up in the hype, the Rangers came out for game five at the Garden in a virtual sleepwalk. By the start of the third period they were down 3-0. New Yorkscratched back to level the score as Messier culminated the three-goal spurt with a wrist shot midway through the period. Vancouver then stunned the Rangers—andthe sellout crowd—by netting three quick goals to put the game far out of reach. Game six in Vancouver proved even more of a challenge for the Rangers. The team showed little will...
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Michael Jordan.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Michael Jordan
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Michael Jordan, born in 1963, American professional basketball player, considered by many to be the greatest player in basketball history.
playoffs the Bulls pushed the Pistons to seven games in the Eastern Conference Finals before losing again. As he grew older, Jordan made a concerted effort to help his teammates reach their own potential. The result of his renewed commitment to team-oriented play was theBulls’ first NBA championship title. After the 1990-91 season the Bulls swept the Pistons in the Eastern Conference Finals and then defeated the Los Angeles Lakers inthe NBA Finals. Jordan won the league MVP award for the second...
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Toys.
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Toys, objects that serve as playthings for children. Although the
clay. These readily available elements were also used to make more elaborate toys as human society advanced. Archaeologists have found primitive, handmade toys such as wooden or cloth dolls, clay marbles, and terracotta figures that date back thousands of years. In ancientEgypt, Greece, and Rome, people placed dolls or clay figures in the graves or tombs of children for them to play with in the afterlife. The yo-yo may seem like a 20th-century fad, but it actually dates back at least 2,500 years...
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Plante First Goalie to Wear a Mask.
rubber shock, which one player described as “the first cousin to shell shock.” Those with advanced cases have been known to skate off the ice during the middle ofchampionship games. Perhaps as a test of Plante's emotional state, Blake requested that he not wear the mask during the regular season. Plante complied, although hedonned the mask for pregame practice sessions. Early in the season, on November 1, the Canadiens took a seven-game unbeaten streak into a match against the New York Range...
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Football.
C Special Teams Each team has players who enter the game during special plays such as kickoffs, field goals, punts, and returns. The kicker kicks off at the beginning of a game or half,and after his team has scored. The kicker also scores points for the offensive team by kicking the ball through the goalpost’s vertical posts, also known as the uprights;these scores are called field goals. When the offensive team must surrender the ball to the opponents, a punter comes in to kick the ball downfi...
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Billiards.
One of the most important snooker players in history was Joe Davis of England, who retired in 1946 after dominating the game for 20 years. He made runs of 100points or more 687 times. This record was later broken by Australia's Horace Lindrum, whose uncle Walter Lindrum was also a world-class billiards player. The mostsuccessful players in recent years include Ireland’s Ken Doherty, Scotland’s Stephen Hendry, and England’s Steve Davis, Jimmy White, and Mark Williams. IV HISTORY Billiards can b...