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Free Online Computer Board Games
by Dick Christoph.
Complete your line across the board before the computer completes his.
A challenging mental exercise!
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LCHESS has been the predecessor of ChessPartner, as a design study a Java version has been derived from it. Is has not been fully ported, just a small part of it ! A program written in Java is much slower than a program written in C or assembler, thus the playing strength will be much less as well. Click on a white piece and drag (i.e. holding down the clicked button) it to where you want to move it.
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by Sven Wiebus.
Drop your counter into a column; the computer then drops its piece also.
Object is to create a row of 4 across, vertically, or diagonally,
of your own color.
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by MazeWorks.
A 19th-century board game invented in France, also called The Military
Game. It was popular among French army officers during and after the
Franco-Prussian war. Martin Gardner in Scientific American says it
'combines extreme simplicity with extraordinary strategic subtlety.'
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by MazeWorks.
An elegant game of strategy invented in the 1940's,
Hex is no longer available commercially but has recently seen an increase in popularity.
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by Karl Hörnell.
The object of this game is to guess the sequence of four colored pegs
the computer has selected at random from the circled colors in the right field.
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aka Reversi. A derivative of the classic 'Go', your objective is to
fill the board with your color by surrounding your opponent.
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by MazeWorks.
Created by the brilliant Danish inventor Piet Hein,
TacTix is a variation of Nim, one of the oldest of mathematical games.
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