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106 points abstractbg | 1 comments | 16 Oct 25 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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dgrin91 ◴[23 Oct 25 02:19 UTC] No.45677459[source]▶
As a lay boardgamer, what makes a board game abstract?
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1. vkou ◴[23 Oct 25 02:21 UTC] No.45677477[source]▶
Chess is an abstract proxy for a wargame, but is not in itself a wargame.

'Abstract' is somewhere on the chess side of the spectrum between Go and moving miniature battle tanks around and flipping to page 237 of Appendix E to look up how much water the average Italian soldier needed to boil his pasta in the Tobruk campaign.