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Renju (Japanese: 連珠) is a professional variant of the abstract strategy board game gomoku.It was named renju by Japanese journalist Ruikou Kuroiwa (黒岩涙香) on December 6, 1899, in a Japanese newspaper Yorozu chouhou (萬朝報).
An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.
Kabushiki Kaisha Othello, which was owned by Hasegawa, registered the trademark "OTHELLO" for board games in Japan; Tsukuda Original registered the trademark in the rest of the world. All intellectual property regarding Othello outside Japan is now owned by MegaHouse, the Japanese toy company that acquired Tsukuda Original's successor PalBox.
Many games which are abstract in nature historically might have developed from thematic games, such as representation of military tactics. [7] In turn, it is common to see thematic version of such games; for example, chess is considered an abstract game, but many thematic versions, such as Star Wars -themed chess, exist.
Pente is an abstract strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel. [1] [2] A member of the m,n,k game family, Pente stands out for its custodial capture mechanic, which allows players to "sandwich" pairs of stones and capture them by flanking them on either side.
Chinese checkers (US) or Chinese chequers (UK), [1] known as Sternhalma in German, is a strategy board game of German origin that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners. [2]
The Othello Quarterly (OQ) was the journal of the United States Othello Association, and was dedicated to the modern version of the game whose generic name is Reversi. [1] [2] It was published from 1979 to 2005. [3] From 1984 to 1986 Ted Landau was editor of the OQ which was based in Falls Church, Virginia.
There are many Othello programs such as NTest, Saio, Edax, Cassio, Pointy Stone, Herakles, WZebra, and Logistello that can be downloaded from the Internet for free. These programs, when run on any up-to-date computer, can play games in which the best human players are easily defeated. This is because although the consequences of moves are ...