Abstract Strategy Games

I have found a new love: Abstract Strategy Games. I have spent an entire lifetime playing chess as a weak-ish amateur, reading books on its history, theory, openings, strategy, and having watched a gazillion hours of commentary online. Let me just say that chess has been a great friend over the years, in moments of solitude, in moments of kinship with family, and everything in between. It was obvious to me even as a kid, that chess was just one game in a family of such games – there was dots and boxes, tic-tac-toe, and other such “pen-and-paper” games. There was Chinese Checkers, Go, Othello, and other such games with boards and pieces. These games and others like them – abstract strategy games – share most of these traits. ...