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An abstract strategy game is a strategy game that minimizes luck and does not rely on a ''theme''.〔Thompson, J. Mark. (2000, July) Defining the Abstract. The Games Journal. Retrieved April 2, 2010, from http://www.thegamesjournal.com/articles/DefiningtheAbstract.shtml.〕〔International Abstract Games Organisation article on game genres, Retrieved September 10, 2010, from http://iagoweb.com/wiki/game-genres〕 Almost all abstract strategy games will conform to the strictest definition of: a gameboard, card, or tile game in which there is no hidden information, no non-deterministic elements (such as shuffled cards or dice rolls), and (usually) two players or teams taking a finite number of alternating turns.〔 〕 Many of the world's classic board games, including chess, Nine Men's Morris, checkers and draughts, Go, xiangqi, shogi, Reversi, and most mancala variants, fit into this category.〔boardgamegeek list of abstract strategy games, retrieved 11 September, from http://boardgamegeek.com/abstracts/browse/boardgame〕〔IAGO list of classic abstract games, retrieved 11 September 2010, from http://iagohalloffame.com/〕 Play is sometimes said to resemble a series of puzzles the players pose to each other. As J. Mark Thompson wrote in his article "Defining the Abstract": There is an intimate relationship between such games and puzzles: every board position presents the player with the puzzle, What is the best move?, which in theory could be solved by logic alone. A good abstract game can therefore be thought of as a "family" of potentially interesting logic puzzles, and the play consists of each player posing such a puzzle to the other. Good players are the ones who find the most difficult puzzles to present to their opponents.〔 == Definition == The most strict definition of an abstract strategy game requires that it cannot have random elements or hidden information. In practice, however, many games that do not strictly meet these criteria are commonly classified as abstract strategy games. (Games such as Continuo, Octiles, Can't Stop, and Sequence, could be considered abstract strategy games, despite having a luck or bluffing element.) A smaller category of non-perfect abstract strategy games manages to incorporate hidden information without using any random elements. (The best known example is Stratego.) Traditional abstract strategy games are often treated as a separate category of game, hence the term 'abstract games' is often used for competitions that exclude traditional games, and can be thought of as referring to ''modern'' abstract strategy games. (Two examples of this were the IAGO World Tour () and the Abstract Games World Championship held annually since 2008 as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad.〔Mind Sports Olympiad on abstract games world championships, Retrieved February 12, 2011, from http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=abstract_games〕) Some abstract strategy games have multiple starting positions of which it is required that one be randomly determined. At the very least, in all conventional abstract strategy games, a starting position needs to be chosen by some means extrinsic to the game. Some games, such as Arimaa and DVONN, have the players build the starting position in a separate initial phase which itself conforms strictly to abstract strategy game principles. Most players, however, would consider that although one is then starting each game from a different position, the game itself contains no luck element. Indeed, Bobby Fischer promoted the randomization of the starting position of a game of chess in order to ''increase'' the game's dependence on thinking at the board.〔http://www.chessvariants.com/diffsetup.dir/fischerh.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「abstract strategy game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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