This text is missing some spaces, please add them: PerhapsthesurprisingfactisthatConwaywasnottryingtodevelopnumbersystems,butratherwasanalysingthegameofGo.ConwaystudiedthegamesoftwoplayersofGoatCambridgewhowereofinternationalstandard.
Perhaps the surprising fact is that Conway was not trying to develop number systems, but rather was analysing the game of Go. Conway studied the games of two players of Go at Cambridge who were of international standard.
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Ifalongthewayyouwouldliketoeatsomeofyouropponent'spieces,that'sfine.Really,youalreadyknowwhatthebackgammonsix-pointis;youjustdon'tknowthatthat'swhatit'scalled.
If along the way you would like to eat some of your opponent's pieces, that's fine. Really, you already know what the backgammon six-point is; you just don't know that that's what it's called.
This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Thelastopponentswereconqueredtwoyearslaterin221BCE,thuscreatingtheEmpireofQin(China).
The last opponents were conquered two years later in 221 BCE, thus creating the Empire of Qin (China).