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'''Charles S. Roberts''' is a [[wargaming|wargame]] [[game designer|designer]]. He is renowned as "The Father of Board Wargaming", having created the first modern wargame (a [[boardgame]]) in [[1952]], and the first wargaming company in [[1954]].
Roberts created the first board wargame, ''[[Tactics (game)|Tactics]]'', in an apartment in [[Catonsville, Maryland]] in 1952. In 1954, out of a garage in [[Avalon, Maryland]], he began selling it via mail-order as The Avalon Game Company, which later become [[Avalon Hill]]. His ''[[Tactics II]]'' (1958) improved on the basic game design of his earlier effort, and formed the genesis for the concept of the [[combat results table]]. In 1958 he published ''[[Gettysburg (game)|Gettysburg]]'', considered to be the first board wargame based upon an actual historical battle, with subsequent versions in [[1961]] and [[1964]].
Hard hit by a recession, Roberts turned over Avalon Hill to one of his creditors, Eric Dott of Monarch Services, in December 1963. Subsequently, he found his way into the publishing market, eventually founding a small press, Barnard, Roberts, and Co.
Starting in [[1974]], Roberts' name was given to the [[Charles S. Roberts Award]]s, given for excellence in the historical wargaming hobby.
In 1999 ''[[Pyramid (magazine)|Pyramid]]'' magazine named Charles S. Roberts as one of ''The Millennium's Most Influential Persons'' "at least in the realm of adventure gaming."<ref>{{cite journal|title=Second Sight: The Millennium's Best "Other" Game and The Millennium's Most Influential Person|journal=[[Pyramid (magazine)|Pyramid]] (online)|url=http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/login/article.html?id=1306|last=Haring|first=Scott D.|date=[[1999-12-24]]|accessdate=2008-02-15}}</ref>
==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.alanemrich.com/CSR_pages/CSR_Awards_Home.htm Charles S. Roberts Awards]
* [http://www.alanemrich.com/CSR_pages/Articles/CSRfoundingfather.htm Charles S. Roberts: The Founding Father], biography.
* [http://www.alanemrich.com/CSR_pages/Articles/CSRspeaks.htm Auto-biography]
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