Lines of Action home page. Lines of Action is a board game, of the same general type as Chess, Go, or Othello.
LOA was invented by Claude Soucie, and described in A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson Latest Changes: (Last modified May 8,2007) New Online Site: LoaGame.com Online Play at Boardspace.net! As of this moment, there are four places to play anytime, anywhere. Method #1 is to play at home. Lines of Action. Lines of Action is a two-player strategy board game invented by Claude Soucie.
The objective is to connect all of one's pieces into a single group. The game was recommended by the Spiel des Jahres in 1988.[1] History[edit] The game was given wide dissemination and positive publicity by its inclusion in Sid Sackson's book A Gamut of Games (1969), but for many years no stable playing community developed to explore the strategy to any depth. Only starting in the 1990s has any deep understanding of the game evolved.