Very interesting account of various "basic" games in society and how computers have been programmed to play them and overcome humans. The AI elements of this book were fascinating, basically discussing how computers learn various skills as each games requires different types of programming.

Would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the subject. I struggled quite a bit since it's not a topic of particular interest to me. Computer programming mostly goes over my head and I think Roeder was writing to an audience a little more knowledgeable than me. This was a gift, probably not something I'd ever pick out for myself. But I'm very glad to have read it and did learn a lot.