We humbly acknowledge that old games are always better because inventing games is one of two human activities excluded from progress. The other one is the brain activity of people adhering to that point of view You can play here for free. MindSports features 24 abstract games - if you want to      you're welcome to do so. You can also      any game you like to use the applet offline We're committed to strategy games rather than tactical ones. Here's the difference: Strategy games have strategies varied enough to allow different styles of play, tactics varied enough to induce their own terminology, and a structure that allows advantageous sub-goals to be achieved as calculable signposts along the way. Tactical games have strategies that are either fairly obvious (however deep), like Pente, or fundamentally obscure, like Othello We want to shed      by specifically asking the question: why can't be programmed? and why do some programmers nevertheless try? Havannah is a pencil and paper game the rules of which can be understood by any eight year old in a minute or so. The inventor has, in the summer 2002 issue of Abstract Games, put € 1000.- prize money on a program that can beat him one out of ten games within the next decade Games have a spirit -     has been implemented in one form or another by almost every culture in the world. You can play international here, as well as 4 variants (and 2 variants of sorts) We're not entirely serious all the time, so we may bring up that: Opinions are difficult because they're too damn easy is inevitable Chess programming is meaningless outside Chess, Havannah programming is meaningless altogether is a strategy game You may yet find time to skip Christian's   Draughts players are hooked on opposition - they'll oppose anything The great Emanuel Lasker made a bad game by improving on a really bad game Playing is like exploring a new continent Please or visit the   , a program with an intruiging link to the game   We're not democratic, but we welcome      and we do actually answer questions (sometimes) A note on gender: we use pronouns like 'he' or 'him' to exclude awkward constructions rather than women

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