Seven Games, Oliver Roeder

Seven Games:  A human history by Oliver Roeder is an intriguing look at human history through the lens of seven games.

Started: 7/11/2022
Completed: 7/14/2022
Recommendation: Only if you know nothing about these games
Recommended By: Nobody

Review:

This is not a human history.  The history component was largely, "before the twentieth century some games were invented and you will get a little bit about that, but mostly we are going to talk about the current or recent champions."  On the other hand, Roeder records his "bingo" words in a Scrabble championship.  All of them.  He also provides all the "bingo" words from the tournament.  Good Lord.  I learned precious little from this book.