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 while some others, such as Lord Byron, likened the Earl's actions to vandalism or looting. Following a public debate in Parliament and its subsequent exoneration of Elgin, he sold the Marbles to the British government in 1816. They were then passed to the British Museum, where they are now on display in the purpose-built Duveen Gallery. After gaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1832, the newly found Greek state began a series of projects to restore its monuments and retrieve looted art. It has expressed its disapproval of Elgin's removal of the Marbles from the Acropolis and the