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  2. Gamesmanship - Wikipedia

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    Gamesmanship. Feigning, exaggerating or drawing out an injury is a common strategy in association football to draw out time and an example of gamesmanship. Gamesmanship is the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win or gain a serious advantage in a game or sport. It has been described as "Pushing the rules to the limit ...

  3. Calico Joe - Wikipedia

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    Calico Joe is John Grisham's first baseball novel.It was released on April 10, 2012. The book's style mixes fact and fiction - introducing fictional players into well-known actual teams such as the New York Mets and the Chicago Cubs and lets them interact with actual people such as Yogi Berra, while letting dramatic fictional baseball matches take place in actual stadiums.

  4. List of games in game theory - Wikipedia

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    Strategies per player: In a game each player chooses from a set of possible actions, known as pure strategies. If the number is the same for all players, it is listed here. Number of pure strategy Nash equilibria: A Nash equilibrium is a set of strategies which represents mutual best responses to the other strategies. In other words, if every ...

  5. Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers - Wikipedia

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    Plot introduction. The novel's characters and setting stay true to Lois-Ann Yamanaka's local upbringing on the Big Island of Hawaii.Written in both English and Hawaiian Pidgin, Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers is a coming-of-age first-person narrative of Lovey Nariyoshi, a local Japanese girl growing up in Hilo, Hawaii in the 1970s.

  6. Asa Hoffmann - Wikipedia

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    His book "The Last Gamesman" was published in 2022. It is a book of reminiscences about a lifetime spent playing games in New York City. Hoffmann was portrayed in the film Searching for Bobby Fischer by Austin Pendleton; Hoffmann himself refused to be involved in the film, disappointed with the depiction of himself as socially inept and obsessive.

  7. The Player of Games - Wikipedia

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    59102973. Preceded by. Consider Phlebas. Followed by. Use of Weapons. The Player of Games is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1988. It was the second published Culture novel. A film version was planned by Pathé in the 1990s, but was abandoned. [2]

  8. Ready Player Two - Wikipedia

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    366. ISBN. 978-1-780-89743-1. Preceded by. Ready Player One. Ready Player Two is a 2020 science fiction novel by American author Ernest Cline. It is the sequel to his 2011 debut novel Ready Player One. Plans for a Ready Player One sequel were first announced in 2015, though Cline did not begin writing the book until late 2017.

  9. Ready Player One - Wikipedia

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    Ready Player Two. Ready Player One is a 2011 science fiction novel, and the debut novel of American author Ernest Cline. The story, set in a dystopia in 2045, follows protagonist Wade Watts on his search for an Easter egg in a worldwide virtual reality game, the discovery of which would lead him to inherit the game creator's fortune and the ...