ISBN: | 9781155656540 |
Publisher: | Books LLC, Wiki Series |
Format: | Paperback |
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: Richard Garfield, Robert Abbott, Paul Jaquays, Aaron S. Rosenberg, Jeff Martin, Raph Koster, Milton Bradley, Rich Whitehouse, Albert Nofi, Edi Birsan, David Sirlin, Steve Peters, Elan Lee, Elizabeth Carpenter, Jim Landes, Angel Leigh McCoy, Charles S. Roberts, Wolfgang Baur, Lou Zocchi, Erol Otus, Skip Williams, Anne Abbott, Chuck Kroegel, Abraham Nathanson, Lauren Elliott, Terry Kuntz, Rob Landeros, Rick Britton, Shane Lacy Hensley, Amy Tucker, Jeffrey Yohalem, Andy Chambers, James Ernest, Edwin S. Lowe, Tom Jolly, Eleanor Abbott. Excerpt: Robert Abbott (born March 2, 1933) is an American game inventor, referred to as "The Official Grand Old Man of Card Games." Though early in his life he worked as a computer programmer with the IBM 360 assembly language, he designed games during the 1950s. Two of his more popular creations include the chess variant Baroque chess (also known as Ultima) and Crossings, which later became Epaminondas. Eleusis was also very successful, appearing in several card game collections, such as Hoyle's Rules of Games and New Rules for Classic Games, among others. Abbott himself released a publication, Abbott's New Card Games, which included instructions for all of his card games in addition to Baroque chess. Abbott also invented "logic mazes," the first of which appeared in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in the October 1962 issue of Scientific American. One of the more famous of these is Theseus and the Minotaur, which was originally published in the book Mad Mazes. Abbott's yearbook picture at St. Louis Country Day School in 1951 as a senior.Abbott was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He attended St. Louis Country Day School. Abbott went to Yale for two years, then attended the University of Colorado for another two. According to Abbott, "being much too bright, I never graduated." Whi...
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