Document:Q9490
From Rhizome Artbase
In January 1977, the French Situationist Guy Debord founded the company "Strategic and Historical Games." This company had an immediate goal: to produce the "Kriegspiel," a "game of war" that Debord had already designed in his head years before. Inspired by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz and the European campaigns of Napoleon, Debord's game is a chess-variant played by two opposing players. The RSG computer game "Kriegspiel" is an attempt to reinterpret Debord's ideas in the contemporary landscape, while maintaining a fidelity to his original thinking.