Some colleagues and I are reading various classic papers. We would like to read von Neumann's "Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele", 1928, but do not read German. Do you know of an English translation, or perhaps another paper/book chapter by von Neumann with similar content?
The whole of "Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour" is too much for this reading group, but if one or two chapters contain the same content that would work.
According to wikipedia, the book Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour (1944) written by Von Neumann and Morgenstern is based on the research published in Zur Theorie der Gesellschaftsspiele.
I think this is the closest you can get if you don't know any German, since there does not seem to be a translation of the original text.