Lines of Action
Lines of Action (LOA) is played on an 8×8 board by two sides, Black and White. Each side has twelve pieces at its disposal. It is a two-person zero-sum game with perfect information. LOA is a connection game, albeit non-typical. Claude Soucie invented the game around 1960. Sid Sackson (1969) described the game in his first edition of A Gamut of Games.
The strongest LOA-playing entity in the world is the
program MIA developed by
Mark Winands.
MIA won the Computer Olympiads of 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2009.
More information can be found at:
http://www.personeel.unimaas.nl/m-winands/loa/
