Acknowledgement
- We humbly acknowledge that old games
are always better because inventing games is one of two human
activities excluded from progress. The other one is the brain
activity of people adhering to that point of view.
- You can play here for free. The Arena is dedicated to high strategy only, and features a rating system.
A selection of the 'almost complete games' and the 'interesting games' can be played in The Pit.
The Field is dedicated to multi player abstracts and will feature applets in the not too distant future.
- We're more committed to strategy games than to tactical ones.
Here's the difference:
Strategy games have strategies varied enough to allow different
styles of play, tactics varied enough to induce their own
terminology, and a structure that allows advantageous sub-goals
to be achieved as calculable signposts along the
way.
Tactical games have strategies that are either fairly obvious (however deep),
like Pente, or fairly obscure, like Othello.
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- Games have a spirit - the one of draughts has been implemented in one form
or another by almost every culture in the world.
You can play international Draughts in the ArenA, as well as 2 variants and 2 variants of sorts.
- We're not entirely serious all the time, yet we may bring up that:
- Opinions are difficult because they're too damn easy.
- José Raúl Capablanca and Bobby Fischer were great players, not great inventors.
- Grand Chess is worth looking into.
- Draughts players are hooked on opposition - they'll oppose anything.
- Dameo is the only way to rescue 'Draughts' as an international sport.
- Emergo is the quintessential column checkers game.
- Mu is something else.
- Life is fundamentally futile and great games are a tribute to precisely that.
- Defining the Abstract - a leading article by J. Mark Thompson.
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- The next Programmers Tournament is to be held on March 20-21 2010. It does not (yet) include Havannah due to too few human participants.
- Hilversum Denkt - "Hilversum Thinks" is a yearly event of recreational Bridge, Chess, Draughts and Go in Hilversum, the Netherlands. This year it is to be held on April 10 2010 and for the first time includes Havannah.
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- In this section you will find a number of unique combinatorial puzzles in two classes, tilings and 3D.
All puzzles ©
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- O-bix is featured by Kadon.
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- Here's a number of interesting games, both traditional and modern.
- Don't forget to skip christian's almost complete games.
- Play online: Minimancala - the smallest almost non-trivial mancala game.
- Math: We've discovered the structure of the series of successively better approximations of the roots of natural numbers, and the inherent division of non-squares in two distinct classes: carréphylic and carréphobic numbers.
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- We're not democratic, but we welcome suggestions
and we do actually answer questions (sometimes).
- A note on gender: we use pronouns like 'he' or 'him'
to exclude awkward constructions rather than women.
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