Topics: Abstract : Battle Games
Battle games all use a number of different types of pieces, each with different styles of movement. Typically the goal is to capture a key piece belonging to your opponent. Many of the battle games played today are descended from Chaturanga, a very ancient game from India.
Amazons
A kind of mix between chess and go, Amazons was invented in 1988 by Walter Zamkauskas.
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Chess
Chess is a challenging board game for two players with 16 pieces that move across a board with eight rows and eight columns, with fixed rules.
Chats and Forums,
Clubs and Associations,
Correspondence,
Directories,
Education,
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Icehouse
Andy Looney's and John Cooper's game Icehouse ("the 100,000-year-old game from Mars") is a boardless, turnless, abstract strategy game.
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Queens Courtiers
The game is played on a fifteen-by-fifteen square grid, on which the central nine-by-nine square is marked.
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Shogi
Shogi is the Japanese version of the game of Chess, with enough interesting changes to make it a different game in its own right.
Organizations,
Software,
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Tessaron
Released by SuperDimension Games.
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