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  2. H. J. R. Murray - Wikipedia

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    In 1952 Murray published A History of Board Games other than Chess.His work there on other games has received some criticism. Notably, he was skeptical of the consensus history of the game Go; he wrote that weiqi (the Chinese term for Go) dated to 1000 AD at the earliest, and wrote that Chinese historians had exaggerated the antiquity of the game as well as their inventions in general.

  3. Board game - Wikipedia

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    The board game Monopoly is licensed in 103 countries and printed in 37 languages. [ 1] Board games are tabletop games that typically use pieces. These pieces are moved or placed on a pre-marked game board (playing surface) and often include elements of table, card, role-playing, and miniatures games as well.

  4. Tafl games - Wikipedia

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    The term tafl (pronounced; Old Norse for 'table') [4] [5] is the original Norse name of the game.. Hnefatafl (roughly , [5] plausibly realised as [n̥ɛvatavl]), became the preferred term for the game in Scandinavia by the end of the Viking Age, to distinguish it from other board games, such as Skáktafl (), Kvatrutafl and Halatafl (), as these became known. [2]

  5. Chess - Wikipedia

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    Chess is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on a chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The players, referred to as "White" and "Black", each control sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two bishops, two knights, and eight pawns.

  6. Leap Frog (board game) - Wikipedia

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    Leap Frog, also known as Leapfrog, is a multi-player abstract strategy board game that was described by H.J.R. Murray in A History of Board Games Other Than Chess (1898) and attributes its origin to England.

  7. List of chess variants - Wikipedia

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    Endgame chess (or the Pawns Game, with unknown origins) [8x8]: Players start the game with only pawns and a king. Normal check, checkmate, en passant, and pawn promotion rules apply. [6] Los Alamos chess (or anti-clerical chess) [6x6]: Played on a 6×6 board without bishops. This was the first chess-like game played by a computer program.

  8. Turkish draughts - Wikipedia

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    Turkish draughts board and starting setup. White moves first. Turkish draughts (Turkish: Dama)(Armenian: շաշկի)(Arabic: دامە)(Kurmanji: Dame) is a variant of draughts (checkers) played in Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and several other locations around the Mediterranean Sea and Middle East.

  9. Shogi - Wikipedia

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    Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈʃoʊɡi /,[ 1] Japanese: [ɕoːɡi]), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general's ( shō 将) board game ...

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