Clobber is an abstract strategy board game invented in 2001 by combinatorial game theorists Michael H. Albert, J. P. Grossman and Richard Nowakowski. Two players compete on a checkered board where pieces of each player's color are placed on alternating squares at the start of play; a legal move captures an adjacent enemy piece by jumping onto its square in a straight line, and a player unable to move loses. Games typically run about fifteen minutes and the rules are simple enough to be recommended for players aged eight and up, while the underlying mathematics has attracted serious academic study from combinatorial game theorists including Elwyn Berlekamp and Erik Demaine. Since 2005 Clobber has been included as one of the events at the Computer Olympiad, where computer programs compete against each other, cementing its status as a modern addition to the abstract strategy game canon.
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Playing Time Game Category Game MechanicPoint to Point Movement 2 Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player Count Sport
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1. Clobber (Wikipedia)
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Clobber is an abstract strategy game invented in 2001
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is best played with two players and takes an average of 15 minutes to play
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- Playing Time: 15
- Designer: J. P. Grossman
- Designer: Michael Albert
- Designer: Richard Nowakowski
- Publisher: (Public Domain)
- Game Category: Abstract Strategy
- Game Mechanic: Point to Point Movement
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 2
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