✵ Welcome to your Game Place ✵
You will find a selection of games that have relaxation and/or reflection in common.
(The list is provisional and may evolve depending on the improvements to be made in order to find the best
gaming platforms that allow you to play directly without waiting.
All games are played against the computer, some are "live multiplayer" you can play against human opponents
live
(ex: Chess, Go, MahJong...) and others where you can play two on the same computer.
Some of these games that you probably know are not only games, because they are very old and have
been
played for millennia on all continents,
some of them have inexhaustible reflection techniques and incredible depth, just like music.
* (All games have an option to mute the sound, it will be much better to enjoy music at the same time)
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The goal here being to combine music, reflection in relaxation, pleasure for the brain... 432Hz Radio hopes that you will appreciate this place and will do everything to make it more and more pleasant for you.
So let's play now!
- MahJong:
Mahjong or mah-jongg, is a tile-based game that was developed in the 19th century in China and has spread throughout the world since the early 20th century. It is commonly played by four players (with some three-player variations found in parts of China, Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia). In Chinese, the game was originally called 麻雀 (pinyin: máquè)—meaning sparrow—which is still used in some languages in southern China. It is said that the clacking of tiles during shuffling resembles the chattering of sparrows. It has also been suggested that the name came from an evolution of an earlier card game called Madiao from which mahjong tiles were adapted. Most Mandarin-speaking Chinese now call the game 麻將 (májiàng). Its name is similar in other languages, except in Thai, where it is called (phai nok krachok).
- Chess:
Chess is a board game between two players. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to distinguish it from related games, such as xiangqi (Chinese chess) and shogi (Japanese chess). The current form of the game emerged in Spain and the rest of Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga, a similar but much older game of Indian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide.The earliest texts referring to the origins of chess date from the beginning of the 7th century. Three are written in Pahlavi (Middle Persian) and one, the Harshacharita, is in Sanskrit. One of these texts, the Chatrang-namak, represents one of the earliest written accounts of chess. The narrator Bozorgmehr explains that Chatrang, the Pahlavi word for chess, was introduced to Persia by "Dewasarm, a great ruler of India" during the reign of Khosrow.
The oldest known chess manual was in Arabic and dates to about 840, written by al-Adli ar-Rumi (800–870), a renowned Arab chess player, titled Kitab ash-shatranj (The Book of Chess). This is a lost manuscript, but is referenced in later works. Here also, al-Adli attributes the origins of Persian chess to India, along with the eighth-century collection of fables Kalīla wa-Dimna. By the twentieth century, a substantial consensus developed regarding chess's origins in northwest India in the early 7th century. More recently, this consensus has been the subject of further scrutiny.
- Checkers:
Also known as draughts is a game for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers is developed from alquerque. The term "checkers" derives from the checkered board which the game is played on, whereas "draughts" derives from the verb "to draw" or "to move".Similar games have been played for millennia, a board resembling a checkers board was found in Ur dating from 3000 BC. In the British Museum are specimens of ancient Egyptian checkerboards, found with their pieces in burial chambers, and the game was played by the pharaoh Hatshepsut. Plato mentioned a game, πεττεία or petteia, as being of Egyptian origin, and Homer also mentions it.
The method of capture was placing two pieces on either side of the opponent's piece. It was said to have been played during the Trojan War. The Romans played a derivation of petteia called latrunculi, or the game of the Little Soldiers. The pieces, and sporadically the game itself, were called calculi (pebbles).
An Arabic game called Quirkat or al-qirq, with similar play to modern checkers, was played on a 5by5 board. It is mentioned in the tenth-century work Kitab al-Aghani. Al qirq was also the name for the game that is now called nine men's morris. Al qirq was brought to Spain by the Moors, where it became known as Alquerque, the Spanish derivation of the Arabic name. The rules are given in the 13th-century book Libro de los juegos. In about 1100, probably in the south of France, the game of Alquerque was adapted using backgammon pieces on a chessboard. Each piece was called a "fers", the same name as the chess queen, as the move of the two pieces was the same at the time.
- Go:
Wei Qi (or Wei-Ch'i) as it's known in China, Baduk (Paduk or Pa-dok) as it's known in Korea or "Go", as it is known in Japan, is considered by many people to be the worlds greatest strategic game, far surpassing Chess in its complexity. Wei-Ch'i means "surrounding game" or "surrounding chess" and the object is simply to capture territory by placing down counters on the board.The mathematical elegance of Wei Chi rules is complemented by the great beauty of the boards and stones, of all board games in the world, Go has been raised by the Japanese to a pinnacle of aesthetic beauty.
Go was considered one of the four essential arts of the cultured aristocratic Chinese scholars in antiquity. The earliest written reference to the game is generally recognized as the historical annal Zuo Zhuan (c. 4th century BCE), referring to a historical event of 548 BCE. It is also mentioned in Book XVII of the Analects of Confucius and in two books written by Mencius (c. 3rd century BCE). In all of these works, the game is referred to as yì (弈).
Today, in China, it is known as weiqi (simplified Chinese: 围棋; traditional Chinese: 圍棋; pinyin: wéiqí; Wade–Giles: wei ch'i), lit. "encirclement board game".
Go was originally played on a 17by17 line grid, but a 19by19 grid became standard by the time of the Tang Dynasty (618–907 CE). Legends trace the origin of the game to the mythical Chinese emperor Yao (2337–2258 BCE).
In China, Go was considered one of the four cultivated arts of the Chinese scholar gentleman, along with calligraphy, painting and playing the musical instrument guqin... In ancient times the rules of go were passed on verbally, rather than being written down.
- Nine men's morris:
(also known as nine-man morris, mill, mills, the mill game, merels, merrills, merelles, marelles, morelles, and ninepenny marl in English), is an old English game that goes back to antiquity, evidence has been found for the game in ancient Rome and possibly Ancient Egypt. More recently, references in the works of Shakespeare have given it an image of the archetypal medieval board game.The game has also been called cowboy checkers and is sometimes printed on the back of checkerboards. Nine men's morris is a solved game, a game whose optimal strategy has been calculated.
Like most of the best games, Nine Mens Morris rules are simple, the objective being to capture opposing pieces by forming lines of 3. It is an under-rated game of skill that is easy to learn but sometimes requiring deep thought. It is an entertaining game for beginners and veterans alike and something for older children and adults to enjoy.
- Pong:
Back to the roots n°2: "Before the Roots" (the seed?), Pong born in November 1972 when one pixel was almost the entire image, but the fun was there for two.Pong is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. First commercially successful video game, it helped to establish the video game industry. For the oldest of you, memories and for the less ancient, pleasure!