A Gnome's Ponderings

I’ve brought up the concept of optimal play, recently. Which brings up two points: Is it desirable and is it possible? What is optimal play?...

I recently took a crack at introducing our five-year to the basics of Go.  And while I have heard Go described as having five rules with...

I have this really silly tendency to divide abstracts up into putting pieces on the board and moving pieces on the board.  Which is nons...

I wanted to write about abstracts that I like since being an adult doesn’t give me the time to pursue Go. (To be fair, having hobbies other ...

Go was a huge milestone for me. Not only is it one of the most genuinely brilliant games ever created and incredible training for your brain...

Quoridor is a game that I've come back to and found out that it is a lot better than I had remembered. There's a very simple rea...

I really like Branches and Twigs and Thorns more than I should. It's one of the slightly obscure Looney Pyramid games. By slightly obs...

A concept that is central to my fascination with games, both boardgames and role-playing games, is emergent gameplay. The core concept b...