... Tantrix) ... arrangement, ... The inventor of Tantrix happened to be an accomplished backgammon player. As I was seeing it, I felt the Doubling Cube added...
Thanks. I am sure it needs some reorganizing and likely needs some elements added as far as a forum goes. As far as the association goes, there is a LOT of...
I think the term abstract strategy game need to sub-divided Rich. When i talk about games these days the image people get are of family trvia, acting out...
... family trvia, acting out games, drawing games etc, which there is absolutely fine; but the only other concept people have of game are geeks dressed up in...
Think of this as an olympics for mental competition. The American Go Association (http://www.usgo.org) put this up on their website, after Bridge had been...
The purpose of this post is to come up with a unifying model to describe all abstract strategy games. Please review this and comment on it. [Key elements] ...
Not bad for a university thesis. Rather scholarly for an average player. For me the key is to find a game devoid of imposed luck, ei rolling dice, or drawing...
... I think there are (and can be) many other types of (intelligent?) players: can a player using strictly minimax search be said to be planning? What about an...
... This part likely would need to be fleshed out more. I was trying to go for extensive here, to be able to fit all abstract strategy games in there. I am...
... The implementation in the form of an association and its games would be more practical, and less scholarly. ... The issue of luck, as I see it, is one...
As part of IAGO, I was looking to define what would or would not be represented by by the organization. I have had heavy argument that kriegspiel and...
Not sure about Kriegapiel, but Backgammon is not on my list. Way to reliant on dice roll luck If you have to roll to play, it isn't an AS game. They are...
This is a Wiki entry. Please be kind if you care to edit it: http://abstractgamers.org/wiki/iago-abstracts-list This is to be a recognized list of abstract...
I don't want to edit the wiki. That's up to you. But I would like to just make suggestions in rec.games.abstract. ... [Non-text portions of this message have...
... What I am trying to go for now is the one stop place on the Internet to find all abstract strategy games. Input here would be for people to see if...
... That sounds hopeless--abstract strategy games are countless and are being invented all the time. There's a traditional, technical literature in which the...
... I agree. I think Rich's idea was to have two separate lists: a list of abstract games in the strictly defined, traditional sense, and a separate list of...
... I am going to post another message on here with the criterion. As someone pointed out, there is two aspects to "abstract strategy". "Abstract" applies to...
This message was posted to rec.games.abstract also, in an attempt to see what responses people get. I will also likely put it up on BGG. Please respond here. ...
... I know. It's getting to be a little overwhelming at this point and I suspect that people are going to start losing interest right about now. You asked...
... or not? ... No, Fischer's Random Chess is not an abstract game. As I already answered you in another forum, a variant of an abstract game is not ...
Hello, That is very good question. In principle I should say that any game including a random component should be discounted as a Abstract Str. Game. HOWEVER...
... "only"? The problem here is that one player, by the luck of the draw, will probably receive a more advantageous starting arrangement than the other...
... no, that is unlikely. But 960chess is a case of the 'letter' and the 'spirit', the answer depends on how much of a fundamentalist you want to be. Perhaps...
... or not? ... I would say that Chess960 is an abstract game, because both players have perfect information when they make their moves. They decide at random...
... or not? ... The question just made me think of a non-random version of Chess960, (which I suppose could be called Thompson Nonrandom Chess). Player 1 takes...
... Oh! So it's "unlikely" is it? You seem to be admitting that there's an element of luck here. There can be no doubt that a Chess expert would find some...
... "only"? The problem here is that one player, by the luck of the draw, will probably get a more advantageous starting arrangement than the other player....
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