A strange little side quest
Between one round of Tic Tac Toe: Dragons and Demons Skin and the next, this is worth knowing: Modern chess traces back to the Indian game chaturanga, recorded around the sixth century and built around pieces representing parts of an army. A second detail makes the picture even better: Pong was field-tested in California bars in 1972 and helped launch the modern arcade-game era. That long chain of experiments is part of why strategy games still feels fresh when a game finds the right twist.
