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  2. Old School RuneScape - Wikipedia

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    Old School RuneScape is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), developed and published by Jagex.The game was released on 16 February 2013. When Old School RuneScape launched, it began as an August 2007 version of the game RuneScape, which was highly popular prior to the launch of RuneScape 3.

  3. Chess piece relative value - Wikipedia

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    Two minor pieces plus two pawns are sometimes as good as a queen. Two rooks are sometimes better than a queen and pawn. [57] Many of the systems have a 2-point difference between the rook and a minor piece, but most theorists put that difference at about 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 points (see The exchange (chess) § Value of the exchange).

  4. Elo rating system - Wikipedia

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    A player whose rating is 100 points greater than their opponent's is expected to score 64%; if the difference is 200 points, then the expected score for the stronger player is 76%. [ 2 ] A player's Elo rating is a number that may change depending on the outcome of rated games played.

  5. Tome of Magic - Wikipedia

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    Allen Varney briefly reviewed the original Tome of Magic for Dragon magazine No. 172 (August 1991). [3] Varney surmised that spellcasters would focus on "heavy artillery" spells, but cautioned that the wise DM "should prefer the many spells that don't cause damage but instead enable good stories" such as the many communication spells that allow characters to convey information more easily and ...

  6. Glossary of video game terms - Wikipedia

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    A specialized type of game controller that the player points at their television screen or monitor to interact with the game. live service games See Games as a service. loadout A specific set of in-game equipment, abilities, power-ups, and other items that a player sets for their character prior to the start of a game's match, round, or mission.

  7. dc (computer program) - Wikipedia

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    dc (desk calculator) is a cross-platform reverse-Polish calculator which supports arbitrary-precision arithmetic. [1] It was written by Lorinda Cherry and Robert Morris at Bell Labs. [2] It is one of the oldest Unix utilities, preceding even the invention of the C programming language. Like other utilities of that vintage, it has a powerful set ...

  8. Weighted Airman Promotion System - Wikipedia

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    The WAPS Promotion Score Calculator is used by enlisted airmen to estimate the minimum test score for promotion to the next enlisted rank.Users enter the promotion year, enlisted grade, their "Total Active Federal Military Service Date", date of their last promotion, EPRs, military decorations, and an estimate of the "Air Force Promotion Cutoff Score" in the Web page's form.

  9. Battleship (game) - Wikipedia

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    The game of Battleship is thought to have its origins in the French game L'Attaque played during World War I, although parallels have also been drawn to E. I. Horsman's 1890 game Basilinda, [1] and the game is said to have been played by Russian officers before World War I. [3] In 1907 the game playing was mentioned in the diary of Russian poet Ryurik Ivnev. [4]