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    Strategy Game Chess Go Checkers and Draughts Xiangqi Shogi Reversi Nine Men's Morris Mancala Puzzles

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    An abstract strategy game is a board game where theme is unimportant and play resembles a series of puzzles players pose to each other through their moves. Many classic games like chess, go, and checkers are abstract strategy games. Combinatorial games have no random elements like dice and involve alternating turns between two players. While some games incorporate hidden information or elements of chance, traditional abstract strategy games are purely skill-based puzzles played between two players in alternating turns without random elements.

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    An abstract strategy game is a board game where theme is unimportant and play resembles a series of puzzles players pose to each other through their moves. Many classic games like chess, go, and checkers are abstract strategy games. Combinatorial games have no random elements like dice and involve alternating turns between two players. While some games incorporate hidden information or elements of chance, traditional abstract strategy games are purely skill-based puzzles played between two players in alternating turns without random elements.

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    An abstract strategy game is a board game where theme is unimportant and play resembles a series of puzzles players pose to each other through their moves. Many classic games like chess, go, and checkers are abstract strategy games. Combinatorial games have no random elements like dice and involve alternating turns between two players. While some games incorporate hidden information or elements of chance, traditional abstract strategy games are purely skill-based puzzles played between two players in alternating turns without random elements.

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    An abstract strategy game is a strategy game in which the theme is not important to the

    experience of playing.[1][2] Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, Go, checkers


    and draughts, xiangqi (Chinese chess), shogi (Japanese chess), Reversi (marketed as
    "Othello"), nine men's morris, and most mancala variants, fit into this category.[3][4] As J. Mark
    Thompson wrote in his article "Defining the Abstract", play is sometimes said to resemble a series
    of puzzles the players pose to each other:[1]
    There is an intimate relationship between such games and puzzles: every board position
    presents the player with the puzzle, What is the best move?, which in theory could be solved by
    logic alone. A good abstract game can therefore be thought of as a "family" of potentially
    interesting logic puzzles, and the play consists of each player posing such a puzzle to the other.
    Good players are the ones who find the most difficult puzzles to present to their opponents.
    Many abstract strategy games also happen to be "combinatorial"; i.e., there is no hidden
    information, no non-deterministic elements (such as shuffled cards or dice rolls), no simultaneous
    or hidden movement or setup, and (usually) two players or teams take a finite number of
    alternating turns.
    Combinatorial games have no randomizers such as dice, no simultaneous movement, nor hidden
    information. Some games that do have these elements are sometimes classified as abstract
    strategy games. (Games such as Continuo, Octiles, Can't Stop, and Sequence, could be
    considered abstract strategy games, despite having a luck or bluffing element.) A smaller
    category of abstract strategy games manages to incorporate hidden information without using
    any random elements; the best known example is Stratego.
    Traditional abstract strategy games are often treated as a separate game category, hence the
    term 'abstract games' is often used for competitions that exclude them and can be thought of as
    referring to modern abstract strategy games. Two examples are the IAGO World Tour (2007–
    2010) and the Abstract Games World Championship held annually since 2008 as part of the Mind
    Sports Olympiad.[5]
    Some abstract strategy games have multiple starting positions of which it is required that one be
    randomly determined. For a game to be one of skill, a starting position needs to be chosen by
    impartial means. Some games, such as Arimaa and DVONN, have the players build the starting
    position in a separate initial phase which itself conforms strictly to combinatorial game principles.
    Most players, however, would consider that although one is then starting each game from a
    different position, the game itself contains no luck element. Indeed, Bobby
    Fischer promoted randomization of the starting position in chess in order to increase player
    dependence on thinking at the board.[6]

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