Howdy all, I've just published episode 4 of the Abstract Gamer podcast at www.abstractgamer.com. In this episode, I discuss playing abstract strategy games...
That was REALLY quiet. I had to hold my ear up to the monitor speaker. I don't understand all the excitement over Yinsh. You've got the Chess slide, the...
... Nor do I. ... The combination of different well-known game mechanisms are characteristic for Kris Burm's Project Gipf games. ... The goal is to win three...
HexWiki http://www.hexwiki.org/ 102 content pages The Othello Wiki Book Project http://othello.dk/book/index.php?title=Main_Page (number of articles not...
Chess masters talk about beautiful moves in Chess, a Renju master has written an article about a beautiful Renju move for Abstract Games magazine. What is a...
... I'm not a master at any game, but if it's a help I would say that one characteristic of a beautiful move is that it works on several different levels. I...
Just speculating here: I think a beautiful move would be a totally non-obvious expert move, even catching your expert opponent off guard. And it would...
... refer ... If you would consider the world a board (after all, the Earth is a disk) and politics a game, do you think that the occupation/liberation of...
Politics is beyond my purview. The only thing that really bothers me about "W" is his consistent use of the word "nukular." Mark ... [Non-text portions of...
I think beauty is strongly linked with surprise. Think of meeting a beautiful woman or tasting an exotic fruit you did not know before. Beauty you could not...
Here is where HexGO has been independently proposed: http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/boards.htm - Sam ... __________________________________________________ ...
The rules for the seventh public game design contest for the piecepack <http://www.piecepack.org> have been announced, and the theme is Good Portsmanship. In...
The Train Journey Travelling on a train on a quite cold and blistery day the traveller is surprised when the man opposite stands up, goes to the window and ...
Hi Mark, Your new game Scribe looks interesting and I donwloaded the rules using the link embedded in your letter. However, when I clicked the pdf for the...
Here's what you don't do: You don't show up at Super Duper Games, declare all of the games there to be "boring," and then try to establish your intellectual...
This is a good homily on social skills, but what has it to do with abstract games? I'm afraid it rather invites a flame-war that will do nothing for those...
I notice Mark Steere has a new connection game, Box Hex, which is reviewed over at Joao Neto's World of Abstract Games. Looks interesting. Mark, any comments...
By the way, anyone sufficiently close to Ann Arbor, Michigan might be interested in attending the U-Con this November 17-19. Most of the U-Con is RPG's, but on...
I don't normally create variants, but upon reading portions of Cameron Browne's "Connection Games" I was inspired to come up with Box Hex and Net Y, both of...
Here is another thing you don't do: gloat about someone else's being kicked off a list for doing things you do yourself. brag about how good you are in your...
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