Re:Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
by jmgregory on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:44AM
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Off the top of my head, if you're looking for deep two-player strategy with zero chance element, besides Go there's Othello (Reversi), Hive, Checkers, and Khet. If you're willing to put up with some chance, Backgammon and Battle Line can be very satisfying. For more than two players, take a look at Puerto Rico (finite but negligible chance) and Diplomacy.
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Quoridor is a great abstract strategy game that doesn't seem to have beecome very widely known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoridor
A lot of the subtlety comes in because of the rule that you can never completely obstruct the opponent's path to the goal, but you can try to make it as convoluted as possible. Hence people try to multiply the opponent's options (so that they can be closed off at the last minute) and limit their own options (so that the opponent isn't allowed to block their unique path to the goal).
Re:Magnus Carlsen is World Chess Champion
by RBerenguel on Friday November 22, 2013 @12:51PM
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One of the most underrated games I have seen. I rank it as Hex for me: two awesome games, very little known (at least there's a very good Hex strategy book)