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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia II - India - Sports and games

India's national sport is field hockey, although cricket is now the de facto national game due to its success and popularity in recent times. But cricket is not the most popular sport in quite a few states, particularly in the northeast. Chess is another international sport in which India is quite strong: Viswanathan Anand was FIDE World Champion, and several players have made significant inroads in recent years, well past the ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia II - Sport in India - Squash

Squash is an recreation sport, played in clubs in urban areas. Over the last few years due the the efforts of Mr N. Ramachandran, Secretary General of the Squash Raquets Federation of India, a world class facility has been constructed in Chennai, India. If not for petty squabbles with factions in the North (New Delhi) and the West (Maharashtra) Mr Ramachandran's legacy would indeed have been a fabulous one. However, unaffected by the politics the juniors in the country are forging ahead. Led by Saurav Goshal & Joshna Chinappa who ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia - Sport

A sport consists of a physical and mentally competitive activity carried out with a recreational purpose for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. A sport has physical activity, side by side competition, self-motivation and a scoring system. The difference of purpose is what characterises sport, combined with the notion of individual (or team) skill or prowess. Sport - History of sport. Main article: History of sport < ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia - Culture of India

The culture of India is one of the oldest cultures in the world. In modern India, there is remarkable cultural diversity throughout the country. The South, North, and Northeast have their own distinct cultures and almost every state has carved out its own cultural niche. In spite of the diversity, it's bound by a common a thread as one civilization perhaps because of its common history and transfer of age old knowledge in the geographies. Indian culture and religions had great impacts on South East Asia and this is evident in the lega ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia - Game

A game is an (often, but not always recreational) activity involving one or more players. This can be defined by either a goal that the players try to reach, or some set of rules that determines what the players can or can not do. Games are played primarily for entertainment or enjoyment, but may also serve as exercise or in an educational, simulational or psychological role. Game - Definition. Although many animals play, only humans confirmably have games. Whether some animals are intelligent enough to gam ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia II - Sports game - Sports games today

The sports genre is currently dominated by EA Sports and 2K Sports, who hold licenses to produce games based on official leagues. EA's franchises include the FIFA Soccer series, the NBA Live series, the Madden Football series, the NASCAR series and Tiger Woods series. All of these games feature real leagues, competitions and players. These games continue to sell well today despite many of the product lines being over a decade old, and receive, for the most part, consistently good reviews. EA Sports' Need for Speed series continues to be one of the best-selling in the ra ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia - Skittles sport

Skittles is an old European target sport, from which Ten-pin bowling and Candlepin bowling in the United States, and Five-pin bowling in Canada are descended. In the United Kingdom the game remains a very popular pub sport in England and Wales, though it tends to be found in particular regions, not nation-wide. It is perhaps most common in the south west counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire and South Wales. It is very popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Skittles sport - Terminology< ...

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India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia - Captain sports

In team sports, a captain is an honorary title given to the member of the team primarily responsible for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field. This role has been particularly important during eras and situations in which coaches have been precluded by the rules from interacting with players on the field, or coaching from the sidelines, while the game is in progress. Depending on the sport, team captains may be given the responsibility of interacting with game officials

India - Sports and games: Encyclopedia II - Sports game - History

Sports game - Beginnings of sports games. One of the first video games in history, Tennis for Two (1958), was a sports game. Computer games prior to the late 1970s were primarily played on university mainframe computers under timesharing systems that supported multiple computer terminals on school campuses. The two dominant systems were the Digital Equipment PDP-10 and the Control Data Corp. PLATO System. These systems displayed no graphics, only text. In the early 1970s they printed the ...

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