Lines of Action

Lines of Action - Initial layout. Lines of Action is played on a standard chessboard, with the same algebraic notation for ranks and files. Each player controls twelve checkers, which are initially arrayed as follows: Lines of Action - Goal. The object of the game is to bring all of one's checkers together into a contiguous body (8-connexity). Lines of Action - Movement summary. Players alternate moves, with black having the fir ...

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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. Abstract strategy - List of Abstract games. Abstract strategy - Chess and Chess-like games. Chaturanga Western Chess Jangki (Korean Chess) Makruk (Thai Chess) ...

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A checkerboard (or chequerboard) is a board on which American checkers is played. It is an 8×8 board and the 64 squares are of alternating color; usually, but not necessarily, black and white. The game of chess is played on a similar board. The term checkerboard is also used to denote any rectangular square-tiled board. In this sense it refers not to a physical board as such but to the mathematical abstraction of such a board. The adjective checkered may refer to a pattern resembling a checkerboard, as in the che ...

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The Olympiad was created in the 1980s by David Levy with the first contest taking place in 1989 at the Park Lane Hotel in London. The games ran on a yearly basis until after the 1992 games, after when the Olympiad's ruling committee was unable to find a new organiser. This resulted in the games being suspended until 2000 when the Mind Sports Olympiad resurrected them. Recently, the ICGA has adopted the Computer Olympiad and tr ...

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In abstract strategy games, players know the entire game state at all times, and random generators such as dice are not used. List of board games - Classic two-player abstract strategy games. Alquerque Chaturanga and its descendants: Chess Jangki (Korean Chess) Makruk (Thai Chess) Shogi (Japanese Chess) Xiangqi (Chinese Chess) Draughts or Checkers Fox and geese Go Gomoku Hnefatafl M ...

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The games currently played are: Amazons Backgammon Bridge Chess Chinese Chess Clobber Dots and boxes Draughts 19x19 Go 9x9 Go Hex Lines of Action Shogi Octi Games which the Olympiad would like to run but have previously been unable to due to lack of entrants: Bao Gipf Othello Po ...

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The game can become quite tactical in open positions where the checkers on both sides are mobile. The strategic depth of the game, however, derives to a large extent from blocking strategies designed to limit the opponent's mobility. It can be very advantageous to pin one or more enemy checkers against the side of board by moving in the second row or column. Having more checkers is usually an advantage, because they can limit the opponent's options as they mass together. On the other hand, material considerations are not all-important, because having fewer checkers also means having fewer to unite. See also:

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It was given wider dissemination and positive publicity by its inclusion in Sid Sackson's book A Gamut of Games, but for many years no stable playing community developed to explore the strategy to any depth. Only starting in the 1990s has any deep understanding of the game evolved. In the last few years, not only has the play of the best humans risen dramatically, but simultaneously excellent computer programs have emerged. The level of play is improving both among humans and computers, but for the present the strongest LOA-pla ...

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