war: what is it good for?

I'm quoted in a fairly funny article about Vegas - and Casino War! - in The Weekly Standard.

"...[it] rivals the worst games with none of the 'benefits.'" (And still he admits that each time he's in Vegas, he plays a few hands of War, "because it's funny.")

Nice, very nice. Congrats on getting quoted!

Quoted in the Weekly Standard... Next thing you'll have a column in the Sattler Times giving Asian movie reviews.

Using the same new mathematical techniques, and building on the chess and checkers work, Scholz and his colleagues are now creating improved computer-based war games for use in military training. Good artificial intelligence has been lacking from most war games until now and they hope their work will provide more realistic characters and situations, and therefore not only better training but also an improved method for considering new strategies for real warfare.
Using the same new mathematical techniques, and building on the chess and checkers work, Scholz and his colleagues are now creating improved computer-based war games for use in military training. Good artificial intelligence has been lacking from most war games until now and they hope their work will provide more realistic characters and situations, and therefore not only better training but also an improved method for considering new strategies for real warfare. One important advance from the chess simulations is to allow multiple moves at the same time, as would happen in a battle.