This new book written by Cameron Browne is absolutely a must for anybody interested in abstract strategy games. 402 pages are providing complete rules for over...
Is Dvonn (not in Browne's book)a connection game? (Stones must be connected to a Dvonn stone, otherwise they are dead and removed from the board.) Are Trax and...
Hi Ralf, Glad to hear that you're enjoying the book! Thanks for giving further details on Connections (which I've called McNamara's Game). I didn't make the...
Hi Cameron, you truly wrote an epochal work which will be considered one of the major contributions to board game studies at the end of the 21 century. It's an...
... Dvonn is mentioned, in fact (but not given in your "List of Games"). Let me compare it to Gonnect which you've included as a connection game. Dvonn is...
Hi Steve, I believe that Gomullo and also the closely related game of Troll suffers from a strong first player's advantage. However, these games are...
Hi Ralf, Thanks for your questions regarding my classification of connection games. It's good to see someone actually take this on board and challenge it. I'll...
Hi Ralf, ... A couple of people have questioned the importance of "connective play" in determining whether a game is a connection game. This is a much more...
Hi Clark, ... As I pointed out, a row in Gomullo is always a connecton between two opposite sites at the same time. What was first, the egg or the hen? My...
... Using this definition, then Tic-Tac-Toe would also be a connection game, as every winning line connects two sides of the board. I don't know of anyone who...
... In fact, funny :-) ... It appears that the boundary dividing topological games runs between fixed patterns versus variable patterns (both common terms) and...
... Hang on, I just read the rules again and would have to agree that Cyclo does have a strictly connective goal; forming a connected path around key board...
... already ... a ... TwixT was really invented in 1957(/58?), the date is from Erwin Glonnegger, one of the most well-known German game experts and former ...
Hello Joao, could you correct the the following mistakes: 1. ... It's one of the outstanding features of international draughts that "soldiers" (men) may...
... Thanks for the comments. I didn't noticed the fact that men can jump backwards in International Checkers and a lot of noise propagated from that. I tried...
... ... "noise"? A whole new world of combinations are made possible by this rule... ... not quite... ... See the official rules of Las Damas Españolas: (23)...
... You're right. I checked other sources too. I rewrote the checkers webpage. ... would ... I understand and respect your position. However, if I try to ...
Hi, Given that a game of Hex: . . . V . H H H V . . V V V . . V H H H . V . . . can be converted into a game of Y by padding the board and filling the new...
That is indeed true. Note that in "padding" the board, you chose this orientation: v v v . V . V V . h V H . h h But you could have chosen this orientation...
I did an article on Zillions and Connection Games for my latest Math Games column for maa.org. http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_03_28_05.html ...
Book of the Month: 100 Strategic Games - For Pen and Paper ======================================= This book was written in April 2002 by Walter Joris, a...
Alternator is one of my favorites too. It's a very unusual expression of the territorial theme (and perhaps also of the connection theme), and it's fun to...
Steve & Ralf, could one of you email me the rules of Alternator, or ask Greg for permission to post it? Curious, -- William ... expression of ... and it's ......
I've just sent an e-mail to Greg requesting his permission. Steve ... From: "William Chang" <williamichang@...> To: <abstractgames@yahoogroups.com> Sent:...
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