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¿Question #783?
TomVasel: Best two-player abstract game?

Kyleschubert: Long distance relationships.
imyourskribe: Too personal
matthyzer: Pentago
Woelf: Hive. Confusion is very good too.
AnubianWolf: For me it is a tie between Stratego (abstract strategy) and Chinese Checker, which I love for its simple elegance
gixmo: Backgammon
vandemonium: Boy... Go? Chess? Pente? The entire Gipf series excpet Tamsk. One of those...
Felimid: Jenga?
quatsch7: Twixt
mummykitty: Chess
aleo09: quatro, chess
Mike A: Hive
WatchmanX2000: Go
Randy Cox: I don't do a lot of abstracts.
ZeroZilla: Go, for my money... but I hardly ever play it, and I'm not that good when i do.
arkibet: tom tube
royaljayhawk: Lost Cities
e.c.r.: go
DHEK: The two-player Blokus (Blokus duo?).
meepthesheep: marriage.
GrimJester: Go, Chess, many others.
scriptorum: Chess is far too classic to ignore.
dare: Go
hokahey: go
nibuen: Chess with the right opponent
Cromaa: Hmmm......Ta Yu
Splinter: chess
vampywife: not sure.
zaiga: Lost Cities.
TaliaIsabelle: Einfach Genial (unless you consider Tigris or Torres abstract, which I don't)
lambda: Ooh, that's a toughie. Go is beautiful and deep, but a little too intimidating. I've been playing a lot of Homeworlds recently, but I wouldn't say it' the best. I'm not sure.
puffinge: chess
Shotmagnet: go
misanthrope: Rock, Paper, Scissors
mlanza: Chess. It's brilliant!
Laudwic: yinish or dvonn - oh, heck just go to the Gipf project. Fun, interesting and not a lifestyle like chess
rhysling: Chess
weasel: Abalone
Tushratta: Chess
bekudno: Go in terms of depth, Hex or Y in terms of elegance.
JackDarwid: Lost City
hacksword: Go. It is the chess of boardgames.
Mig_: blokus
SiddGames: The one I've been designing... didn't do well at Premio 04 but I'm still plugging away on it :)
fledermaus: Chess
Loquutus: Hive
javelin98: Stratego
loiosh13: Dvonn, possibly Yinsh but Yinsh is too new (to me) to know for certain.
Great Dane: Hasn't been invented yet
GrandpaDave: Checkers
ststrat: Go
DonO: Sleuth. Each player has two different hands of cards which the other player has to ask about separately.
sourwyrm: yinsh
BengalBandit: Chess
Lord_Prussian: Yinsh
The Unbeliever: 42
skrutsch: Othello.
familygaming: Go
ThatFalafelGirl: Goblet, but i'm finally learning chess, and i really like it.
Redneon: Chess
Metaphora: Ta Yu
Karlsen: Chess, that or crocodile pool party (because you couldn't really say it is well themed could you?)
snoozefest: zertz
King_Custard: Dvonn
ikeafetishist: chinese chess
Nomadik: Backgammon, then Chess, then Othello.
HappyProle: Rock-Paper-Scissors
heli: define "abstract"
bacco: Chess, no way
Malacoda: Quarto.
Wintergoblin: not sure
ssmooth: Depends what you mean by abstract, and who the other player is
dakarp: Go
darthcliff: Twister
Fa�l: GO!
kennyb: Go, Chess
Bearcat89: At this point in time, I am partial to Akron and Druid...of course, I love Chess and variants...
isolated: Go, but I prefere to play Abalone.
gnomehome: gipf
kracken: Go
PghArch: I'll have to go with GO.
WasQ: backgammon
m_r_tyler: Chess
crparis: Shogi
sos1: Ta Yu
geberus: go
Blackwind: I hate abstracts
Cavedog_pdx: Yinsh
alfredhw: Go. There is no second place. Third place, I have as a tie between Zertz and Einfach Genial.
Mozbink: Go.
sumo: Go
djlg: Go
wiz8mom: Dvonn - my husband likes it so that's why it gets the vote
taraba: I haven't played many, but I'd say Go.
ScottBecker: Chess
BobDodgerBlue: Go
Vince Londini: Set
louiseh: Chase is pretty good.
Dave: Chess
chaddyboy_2000: Crokinole.
Mosse: I like Yinsh
game_boy: Go, Chess, Battle Line
Aldie: Zertz
jttm: Is Kahuna abstract? I don't know. Abalone?
Spielfreak: Yinsh
Shakar: Das grosse Fressen.
ValJor: Chess
CDRodeffer: I love so many of them! Chase is my favorite for fun, Go my favorite for all time.
netfilterz: Go
Flyspeck23: Chess.
Denise: Dunno
MisterCranky: Oh why bother fussing about it, Chess
queequeg: chess
skelebone: Zertz is pretty good, and so is Phoenix, but I also am learning Go.
ynnen: So many to choose from. Current favorites include Blokus, Abalone and Pueblo.
CortexBomb: As such: Go Practically speaking; I haven't played any two player abstracts that really blow me away, though I would like to get to the GIPF series at some point