Gaming at Troynovant:
sporting with the nature & history of games,
board games & role-playing games,
playful strategy & tactics,
sports with a plot;
listed by Title
  

Analyses, histories, or novels about games or sports generally are not reviewed at Troynovant unless the review holds cards to play about gaming and creativity, or about a sport more plotted than played, politics or criminality in sports, and so on. We like games with writing, sports with a plot.
  

Mr. Bennett (to his daughter Elizabeth):

"But Lizzy, you look as if you did not enjoy it. You are not going to be Missish, I hope, and pretend to be affronted at an idle report. For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?"

Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice, Vol. III, Chapter XV  (1813)
  

If I were free now, all my struggling would be unnecessary. I could turn to a work or an action and test all my strength against it. — As things stand now, I can only hope to free myself gradually, and up to the present I feel I am becoming more and more so. So the day of my real labor is also coming, and the preparation for the Olympic games is over. —

Friedrich Nietzsche
"We Classicists", section 189  (1875)
Unmodern Observations
edited and translated by William Arrowsmith

  
[Elsinore Castle, Denmark. Polonius' apartments.]

Polonius:

        'I know the gentleman,
I saw him yesterday' — ...
'There was a gaming, there o'ertook in 's rouse,
There falling out at tennis', or perchance
'I saw him enter such a house of sale',
Videlicet, a brothel, or so forth. See you now,
Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth; ...

William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 2.1.55-62

  
I had begun in 1733 to study Languages. I soon made myself so much a Master of the French as to be able to read the Books with Ease. I then undertook the Italian. An acquaintance who was also learning it, us'd often to tempt me to play Chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the Time I had to spare for Study, I at length refus'd to play any more, unless on this Condition, that the Victor in every Game, should have a Right to impose a Task, either in Parts of the Grammar to be got by heart, or in Translation, &c. which Tasks the Vanquish'd was to perform upon Honour before our next meeting. As we play'd pretty equally we thus beat one another into that Language.

Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography