Abstract strategy game - Definition and Overview

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.

List of Abstract games

Chess and Chess-like games

• Western Chess
• Shogi
  • Shogi variants
• Xiangqi
• Janggi
• Other Chess-like games

Other Games

• Abalone
• Arimaa
• go
• Hex
• Havannah
• Mancala
• Noughts and Crosses, also known as Tic Tac Toe
• Quarto
• Othello, also known as Reversi
• Terrace
• TwixT
• Y

External links

• "Defining the Abstract", a good explanation by J. Mark Thompson. (http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml)
• The world of abstract games (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/)