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Christian Freeling, the Glossary

Christian Freeling (born 1 February 1947, in Enschede, Netherlands) is a Dutch game designer and inventor of abstract strategy games, notably Dameo, Grand Chess, Havannah, and Hexdame.^[1]

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Chess variant inventors

Abstract strategy game

An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game.

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Alex Randolph

Alexander Randolph (4 May 1922 – 27 April 2004) was an American designer of board games and writer. Christian Freeling and Alex Randolph are board game designers.

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Bishop (chess)

The bishop (♗, ♝) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Board game

Board games are tabletop games that typically use.

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Capablanca chess

Capablanca chess (or Capablanca's chess) is a chess variant invented in the 1920s by World Chess Champion José Raúl Capablanca.

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Chad (chess variant)

Chad is a chess variant for two players created by Christian Freeling in 1979.

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Chakra (chess variant)

Chakra is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1980.

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Chess title

A chess title is a title regulated by a chess governing body and bestowed upon players based on their performance and rank.

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Chess variant

A chess variant is a game related to, derived from, or inspired by chess.

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Congo (chess variant)

Congo is a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling in 1982 when he was nearly 8 years old.

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Connection game

A connection game is a type of abstract strategy game in which players attempt to complete a specific type of connection with their pieces.

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Correspondence chess

Correspondence chess is chess played by various forms of long-distance correspondence, traditionally through the postal system.

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Dameo

Dameo is an abstract strategy board game for two players invented by Christian Freeling in 2000.

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David Parlett

David Parlett (born 18 May 1939 in London) is a games scholar, historian, and translator from South London, who has studied both card games and board games. Christian Freeling and David Parlett are board game designers.

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Dragonfly (chess variant)

Dragonfly (also known as Shuttle Chess or Bird Chess) is a chess variant invented by Christian Freeling in 1983.

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Emergo (board game)

Emergo is an abstract strategy game created by Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon in 1986.

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Empress (chess)

The empress is a fairy chess piece that can move like a rook or a knight.

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Enschede

Enschede (known as Eanske in the local Tweants dialect of Low Saxon) is a city and municipality in the province of Overijssel.

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Enschede fireworks disaster

The Enschede fireworks disaster was a catastrophic fireworks explosion on 13 May 2000 in Enschede, Netherlands.

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Epaminondas (game)

Epaminondas is a strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott in 1975.

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Fairy chess piece

A fairy chess piece, variant chess piece, unorthodox chess piece, or heterodox chess piece is a chess piece not used in conventional chess but incorporated into certain chess variants and some chess problems.

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Game mechanics

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them.

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Grand Chess

Grand Chess is a large-board chess variant invented by Dutch games designer Christian Freeling in 1984.

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Hans L. Bodlaender

Hans Leo Bodlaender (born April 21, 1960) is a Dutch computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Utrecht University.

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Havannah (board game)

Havannah is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Christian Freeling.

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Hex (board game)

Hex (also called Nash) is a two player abstract strategy board game in which players attempt to connect opposite sides of a rhombus-shaped board made of hexagonal cells.

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Hexagon

In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ, hex, meaning "six", and γωνία, gonía, meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon.

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Hexdame

Hexdame (or HexDame) is a strategy board game for two players invented by Christian Freeling in 1979.

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Knight (chess)

The knight (♘, ♞) is a piece in the game of chess, represented by a horse's head and neck.

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List of mancala games

Games in the mancala family include.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.

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Orthogonality

In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of perpendicularity.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Princess (chess)

The princess is a fairy chess piece that can move like a bishop or a knight.

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Race game

Race game is a large category of board games, in which the object is to be the first to move all one's pieces to the end of a track.

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Ravensburger

Ravensburger AG is a German game, puzzle and toy company, publishing house, and market leader in the jigsaw puzzle market.

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Reiner Knizia

Reiner Knizia is a prolific German-style board game designer. Christian Freeling and Reiner Knizia are board game designers.

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Robert Abbott (game designer)

Robert Abbott (March 2, 1933February 20, 2018) was an American game inventor, sometimes referred to by fans as "The Official Grand Old Man of Card Games". Christian Freeling and Robert Abbott (game designer) are board game designers and chess variant inventors.

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Rook (chess)

The rook (♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess.

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Sid Sackson

Sid Sackson (February 4, 1920 in Chicago – November 6, 2002) was an American board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game Acquire. Christian Freeling and Sid Sackson are board game designers.

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Strategy game

A strategy game or strategic game is a game in which the players' uncoerced, and often autonomous, decision-making skills have a high significance in determining the outcome.

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Sygo

Sygo is a two player abstract strategy game created in 2010 by Christian Freeling.

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Symple (game)

Symple is a two-player abstract strategy game created in 2010 by Christian Freeling and Benedikt Rosenau.

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The Chess Variant Pages

The Chess Variant Pages is a non-commercial website devoted to chess variants.

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Turkish draughts

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.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Freeling

Also known as Christiaan Freeling.

Christian Freeling, the Glossary

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