About removing Jade winning strategy and potential unbalance between victories of crosses and parallels, I would suggest the always basic and very often...
... Ha! Thought I'd tried all the symmetries, guess I should have broken out some physical stones and tried it. Nice! JPN's fix sounds interesting, as does...
OK i need a tactic for chess. I am not very good at the game at all and I need to learn how to actually...oh let's go out on a limb and say....WIN! Any ideas?...
... I suggest that you study Lasker's "Book of Chess Strategy". You can find an on-line copy here: http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/chsst10.txt A Chess...
Hi, I made a webpage at the World of Abstract Games (WAG), where I present a simple game system to play almost all board games posted on WAG You can check it...
Hello, I am currently compiling a book on connection games. This will be a survey of the genre, studying key games in detail while exploring common themes and...
The rules to my new game are now posted on http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/lazo.html This game is still going through alpha testing on PBMserv; it doesn't work...
Hi I have been discussing and playing 3 player games with Cameron Browne and Bill Taylor, and I wonder if some of you know any good 3 player games that prevent...
Actually, lazo is a common word- in Spanish. It means "loop" or "lasso" which is close enough for me. No offense, Peter, but Loop is - ah - a bit geeky. This...
Hi William, Glad to hear that you're interested. I'll be accepting submissions for quite a while yet :) I hope to have a draft of the book completed around...
Area of interest... I haven't met a connection game I didn't like :-) beginning with Go -- do you plan to mention Go in your book? I have ended up reading...
Hi Joao. Having two kids who love games and a wife who doesn't, I also yearn for the proverbial 3-player. Do you like Triton aka Shoulder to Shoulder?...
Excuse me while a do a little self-promotion. Try Rigellan Sii-od. There's a Zillion implementation at their website. It's a three-player chess-type game...
In my searches for board games to include into the "World of Abstract Games", I came across with some games that may fit the criteria, but I only have partial...
I have the first two on your list, Barrier and Crosse, and can get you the rules over the weekend. I'm also very interested in any information about the...
... Basically I'm searching for games with one or two types of pieces for each player (including stackable games) so that I may present them at WAG. Any game...
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I was hoping that someone in this group own or is familiar with the game Duell by Leisure Dynamics Inc. It seems it was also released under the name of TACTIX....
... to ... A Chess-like game played with dice. Very neat. That space is the initial position of the key piece. In other words, capture the key piece, or land...
... the ... released ... seem ... key ... board. I ... You can see photos of the Duell and Tactix boards at www.abstractgames.com . Click on The List, then on...
... The board on the above site is a 9x8 playing field. The one I have is 9x9. Which is correct? Another area of contention in this game is the orientation...
... Dice can be right-handed or left-handed, according to the arrangement of the pips on the face. Although the opposite faces equal seven, looking around the...
More info on right-handed and left-handed dice can be found at this website: http://users.erols.com/ee/dice.htm Probably more than most people really want. ;-)...
Crosse, published by TSR. My paraphrase of the (longish) rules: object: A checkers variant won by having no piece of your own left, or exactly four pieces...
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