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  2. Go (game) - Wikipedia

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    Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players in which the aim is to fence off more territory than the opponent. The game was invented in China more than 2,500 years ago and is believed to be the oldest board game continuously played to the present day.

  3. Xiangqi - Wikipedia

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    Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.

  4. Mahjong - Wikipedia

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    Games scholar David Parlett has written that the Western card games Conquian and Rummy share a common origin with Mahjong. [24] All these games involve players drawing and discarding tiles or cards to make melds. Khanhoo is an early example of such a game. The most likely ancestor to Mahjong was pènghú which was played with 120 or 150 cards. [23]

  5. Pong Hau K'i - Wikipedia

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    Pong Hau K'i (Chinese: 裤裆棋; pinyin: kùdāng qí, Cantonese: Pong Hau K'i/bong1 hau2 kei4 崩口棋) is a Chinese traditional board game for two players. In Korea, it is known as Ou-moul-ko-no or Umul Gonu (우물고누) [1] [2] or as Gang Gonu (강고누). "Umul" translates as "a spring", and the appearance of the board is like that of a ...

  6. Traditional games of China - Wikipedia

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    In this game, one player is the eagle, another player is the chicken, and the remaining players are chicks. The chicks form a line behind the chicken by holding each other's waists, and the goal of the eagle is to tag the chicks, while the chicken tries to prevent this by holding their arms out and moving around.

  7. Gomoku - Wikipedia

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    This applies to both free-style gomoku and standard gomoku without any opening rules. It seems very likely that black wins on larger boards too. In any size of a board, freestyle gomoku is an m,n,k-game, hence it is known that the first player can force a win or a draw. In 2001, Allis's winning strategy was also approved for renju, a variation ...

  8. Liubo - Wikipedia

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    Liubo (Chinese: 六博; Old Chinese *kruk pˤak “six sticks”) was an ancient Chinese board game for two players. The rules have largely been lost, but it is believed that each player had six game pieces that were moved around the points of a square game board that had a distinctive, symmetrical pattern.

  9. Chinese Civil War (wargame) - Wikipedia

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    Chinese Civil War was designed by Bob Fowler, and appeared as a free pull-out game in Issue 10 of The Wargamer in 1979. 3W then released it as a boxed set in 1984. Reception [ edit ]