Document:Q5944
From Rhizome Artbase
In 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord produced Kriegspiel, a two-player chess-variant that he had designed with inspiration from the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon. Each player has a communication network powered by immobile arsenals that must be maintained in order to protect mobile units from capture; lines of communication can be severed by the enemy and thus are crucial to strategy. The object of the game is to destroy the opponent, either by eliminating all mobile forces, or by destroying its two arsenals. Galloway's computer game Kriegspiel is inspired by Debord's game and based entirely on its rules, but instead of facing an opponent in person, players duel online.