Steven Meyers' homepage

last updated April 2, 2013 link to freeware BoxOff program

my wife Christine and I

This website provides information on some games that appeared in Games magazine and Abstract Games magazine. Many thanks to their respective editors, R. Wayne Schmittberger and Kerry Handscomb. Complete rules are given, as well as sample games with commentary, handicap systems and puzzles. Since all these games can be played with pen-and-paper, I've included some printable boards marked for notation. I'd be happy to play any of these games via e-mail, and I also enjoy playing shogi variants (Wa and Dai-dai in particular). Lately I've been playing a lot of Akron, a game which I had the opportunity to make some helpful suggestions for. Akron is implemented for Richard's, so please challenge me if you'd like --- my user id is stevmey.

For those interested in Y theory, there's now a very nice online proof at Cut-the-Knot.

The revised version of my game Forms has been nicely written up by Joao Neto. Below is a picture of one of our cats, Shogi, checking out a homemade board with a game in progress.

Forms has now been implemented on iggamecenter, where it is known as "advanced Forms."

UPDATE! Greg Schmidt has written a freeware program for BoxOff, a solitaire game that I invented. Here's a pic of my wife playing a game on a physical board.

BoxOff will be featured in the August 2013 issue of GAMES magazine, available in bookstores May 28th!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Steven Meyers
8356 Lake Avenue
Cincinnati, OH 45236
USA

(513) 607-7657

swmeyers@fuse.net

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