Computer Olympiad 7th-13th 2018 and the 10th International Conference on Computers and Games (CG2018) from July 9th-11th in Taipeh, Taiwan. The World Computer Chess Championships 2018 took place from July 13th-19th in Stockholm, Sweden. Abalone is strategy game using a hexagonal patterned board with 14 marbles for each of two players. The objective is to push six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board. Amazons is played on a 10x10 chessboard by two players each with four "amazons" (queen chess pieces). Moves are made to block squares and the winner is the last player able to move his pieces
Elgin Marbles that "the Greeks were guilty of excessive cleaning of the marbles before they were brought to Britain." During the international symposium on the cleaning of the marbles, organised by the British Museum in 1999, curator Ian Jenkins, deputy keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities, remarked that "The British Museum is not infallible, it is not the Pope. Its history has been a series of good intentions marred by the occasional cock-up, and the 1930s cleaning was such a cock-up". Nonetheless, he claimed that the prime cause for the damage inflicted upon the marbles was the 2000-year-long weathering on the Acropolis.