5. Games Britannia “Dicing with Destiny”

Games Britannia "Dicing with Destiny" (1/3)

This was very interested in this TV program from the BBC i found it showed how people treasured there board games almost like seeing them as a god like object in some cases. Board games just like video games of our time, these games are great pass time activities and shows how games where played in the past and sometimes had dramatic consequences on the future within the church and putting forward movement for the war strategies showing a game which involved a king protected by his army trying to get to the end of the board. I was very interested in the chess principles in this episode which Showed the grand chess tournament between the two best chess players of the time when the game was played and how easy it is to lose and game if you make the wrong moves as strategies and strategic movement was very important to people when playing games in the past and made very interesting event for people to came watch. Which is what made the first of the three episodes very interesting as games where taken a lot more serious and used in higher class as well as lower class areas of the world.

The Main Interesting even in this first episode of the Games Britannia was the event where they first started to understand how games could be used for early war strategies. Even though this could be a bit far fetched like Eddie was saying when we where watching the episode. yep that's right i still remember what Eddie said even this far back when we first started games Britannia. This event in the show was when the Romans had invaded Britten and the people who ruled Britten at the time where trying to protect the king.

The chess game reenactment in the episode was also very interesting showing how the game of chess between the two champions was played with the big giant chess board and pieces which i think was in London but i could be wrong here. This is just going off my memory of the episode.

I also remember them also covering a game where they had to get the king to the end of the board which was also very interesting i think this was a big and more updated version of a smaller version of this games where you have to protect your king and get him to the end of the board.

Overall this was the most interesting episode for me as the other episodes just talked about video games which where good at the time but now look silly and way out of date. So i found the board game aspect way more interesting finding out about these new board games.