Abstract strategy

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

Paper and Pencil Games

• Dots and Boxes
• Noughts and Crosses, also known as Tic-Tac-Toe

Other Games

• Abalone
• Arimaa
• Cathedral
• Chinese Checkers
• Connect Four
• Draughts (also known as Checkers)
• The Game of the Amazons (also known as Amazons)
• Go
• Gomoku – played on a Go board; can be played as a "paper and pencil game", since once played, a piece cannot be moved or removed from play.
• Halma
• Havannah
• Hex
• Kensington
• Mancala
• Three, Six and Nine Men's Morris
• Quarto
• Qubic
• Othello, also known as Reversi
• Rubik's Infinity
• Rubik's Magic Strategy Game
• Terrace
• Thud
• TwixT
• Y

External links

• "Defining the Abstract", a good explanation by J. Mark Thompson.
• The world of abstract games