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
Jay R. Winkler Jay R. Winkler Dr. Jay Richmond Winkler, Ph.D. (b. January 28, 1956) is an American physical chemist, currently Director of the Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center at the California Institute of Technology. He has authored over two hundred twenty five articles on applications of inorganic spectroscopy, including the pioneering study of intramolecular electron transfer reactions in biological systems. Winkler received his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Stanford University. During this time he distinguished himself as a student of Professor Henry Taube, authoring a paper on the electronic structure and reactivity of osmium ammine complexes. Winkler received his Ph.D. in Chemistry