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
Arundel marbles Ancient Greece as standard units of measure. Another important object from Arundel's collection is the so-called Arundel Head, an Hellenistic bronze portrait of a philosopher or king from Asia Minor now in the British Museum. The Arundel marbles were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, John Selden compiled a catalogue: "Marmora Arundeliana" with the assistance of two others, Patrick Young and Richard James. In 1763 Richard Chandler published a fine edition of the inscriptions as "Arundelian Marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia" with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for filling the lacunae