Abstract strategy game

An abstract strategy game is a strategy game (i.e. a game in which luck plays a minimal role) that does not rely on a theme.

Play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other.

Description

Traditional abstract strategy games will conform to the strictest definition of:

• A gameboard, card, or tile game in which there is no hidden information
• No non-deterministic elements (such as shuffled cards or dice rolls)
• Usually two players or teams taking a finite number of alternating turns

Many of the world's classic board games fit into this category:

• Chess
• Nine Men's Morris
• Checkers and draughts
• Go
• Xiangqi
• Shogi
• Reversi
• Most mancala variants

See also

• Game
• Game theory
• Strategy game

External links

• Abstract strategy game @ Wikipedia