Battleship (game) Battleship (game) Battleship (also Battleships or Sea Battle) is a guessing game for two players. It is played on ruled grids (paper or board) on which each players fleet of ships (including battleships) are marked. The locations of the fleets are concealed from the other player. Players alternate turns calling "shots" at the other player's ships, and the objective of the game is to destroy the opposing player's fleet. "Battleship" is known worldwide as a pencil and paper game which dates from World War I. It was published by various companies as a pad-and-pencil game in the 1930s, and was
Friedrich Winkler Friedrich Winkler Friedrich Horst Winkler (5 March 1888 - 23 February 1965) was a German art historian specialised in German art, especially the works of Albrecht Dürer, and Early Netherlandish painting from the 15th and 16th century. Friedrich Winkler was born at his family's farm in Prehna, a hamlet of Lumpzig, Germany, in 1888. He studied art history at the University of Vienna, the University of Berlin, and the University of Freiburg, where he studied under Wilhelm Vöge. His thesis "Der Meister von Flemalle und Rogier van der Weyden", written in 1912, was published in 1913. He then started working