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TZAAR: Puzzle #2
Can White win?
Analogue calculation
Online vs Offline
Online board-game platforms are convenient, but they turn deep strategy into weightless clicks. Why do real abstract strategies still need physical weight, tactile feel, and emotional feedback?
Strategic thinking in real life
The best way to learn to plan life ahead
In debate and in life, the winner is not whoever shouts loudest, but whoever can read the opponent’s next moves. See how perfect-information abstracts train the brain, cut through illusions, and turn chaotic choices into clean, winning calculation.
DVONN
A game of mobility
Imagine a battlefield that literally falls away underfoot. In DVONN — Fire in the legendary Project GIPF — you can lose a whole army to one opponent move. You need not grind the enemy down piece by piece: cut them off from the red heat sources with a precise positional strike, and huge stacks die instantly and leave the board forever.
TZAAR: Puzzle #1
Can White win?
This position arose at the TZAAR World Championship in Prague during the 2008 Central European Mind Sports Olympiad.
Cat & Comb: when everything went wrong
Where was the mistake?
A tense game ended in a White loss. But where was the mistake?
Is it already mate, or can Black still fix things?
Cat-a-comb
Speed tactics in a tin can
Cat-a-Comb proves even a pocket abstract can run deep: area control, opening tempo, fights over three-high towers, and sharp tactical traps.
