Posts Tagged ‘History’

History of blackjack card counting

Posted by Nicolae on September 3rd, 2008 under Blackjack, Card counting, strategies
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  2 Comments

American mathematician Dr. Edward O. Thorp is considered the father of card counting. His 1962 book Beat the Dealer (ISBN 0394703103) outlined various betting and playing strategies for optimal blackjack play. Although mathematically sound, some of the techniques described no longer apply as casinos took counter-measures (such as no longer dealing [...]

History of playing cards

Posted by Nicolae on August 31st, 2008 under History, Playing cards
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  4 Comments

Early history
The origin of playing cards is obscure, but it is almost certain that they began in China after the invention of paper. Ancient Chinese “money cards” have four “suits”: coins (or cash), strings of coins (which may have been misinterpreted as sticks from crude drawings), myriads of strings, and tens of [...]

Olympic boxing

Posted by Nicolae on August 11th, 2008 under Boxing Guide, History, Sport, games
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  1 Comment

Olympic (or Amateur) boxing is found at the Olympic Games and Commonwealth Games. Olympic boxing prizes point scoring rather than physical damage or knockouts. Bouts comprise four rounds of two minutes in Olympic and Commonwealth and three rounds of two minutes in a national ABA (Amateur Boxing association) bout each with [...]

History of tennis

Posted by Nicolae on August 7th, 2008 under History, Sport, Tennis Guide
Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  •  No Comments

Tennis has a long history (deriving from the ‘jeu de paume’), but its establishment as the modern sport can be dated to two separate roots. In 1856, Alex Ryden, a solicitor, and his friend Batista Pereira, a Spanish merchant, who both lived in Birmingham, England played a game they named “pelota”, after [...]

History of basketball

Posted by Nicolae on August 4th, 2008 under Basketball Guide, History, Sport
Tags: , , , , , , ,  •  1 Comment

Early basketball
The first basketball court: Springfield College.
Basketball is unique in that it was invented by one person, rather than evolving from a different sport. In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born physician of McGill University and minister on the faculty of a college for YMCA professionals (today, Springfield College) [...]