oldest strategy games would be the "Greek game of polis (?????), which appears in the literature around 450 BCE, and the more or less contemporary Chinese game of weiqi ('go'), which, under the name of yi (?), is mentioned in Confucius's Analects (Lunyu) compiled between ca 470/50 and 280 BCE."

The Royal Game of Ur from c. 2500 BCE which often