Abstract strategy
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An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, go, and mancala, fit into this category. Play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other.
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List of Abstract games
Chess and Chess-like games
- Chaturanga
- Western Chess
- Jangki (Korean Chess)
- Makruk (Thai Chess)
- Shogi
- Xiangqi
- Janggi
- Other Chess-like games
Paper and Pencil Games
Other Games
- Abalone
- Alak
- Alquerque
- The Game of the Amazons (also known as Amazons)
- Andantino
- Arimaa
- Ataxx
- Breakthrough
- Cathedral
- Chinese Checkers
- Connect Four
- Crossings
- Death Stacks
- Draughts (also known as Checkers)
- Entropy (1977 and 1994 games)
- Epaminondas
- Fanorona
- Five Field Kono
- Focus
- Fox and geese
- The Gipf project games:
- Go
- Gobblet
- Gomoku - played on a Go board; can be played as a "paper and pencil game", since once played, a piece cannot be moved or removed from play.
- Gonnect
- Gounki
- Halma
- Havannah
- Hex
- Hijara
- Kensington
- L Game
- Lines of Action
- Lotus
- Mak-yek
- Malaika
- Mancala and related games
- Martian Chess (for two to six players)
- Morris - Three, Six and Nine Men's Morris
- Mozaic
- Nim
- Ninuki-renju
- Orbit
- Othello, also known as Reversi
- Pente
- Phutball
- Quarto
- Qubic
- Quoridor
- Renju
- Rhumb Line
- Rubik's Infinity
- Rubik's Magic Strategy Game
- Rhythmomachy
- Spangles
- Tafl games
- Tanbo
- Teeko
- Terrace
- Three Musketeers
- Thud
- Trax
- Turnabout
- TwixT
- Y
See also
- Zillions of games - commercial abstract board game engine
External links
- "Defining the Abstract", a good explanation by J. Mark Thompson. (http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml)
- The world of abstract games (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/)fr:Jeu de stratégie combinatoire abstrait