Board games
Congo
(Web published), 1982
Congo is a board game published by (Web published) in 1982. It is played with 2 players, from age 8 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publisher
- (Web published)
- Designer
- Demian Freeling
- Year of release
- 1982
- Official website
- mindsports.nl
About the game
Congo is a chess variant invented by Demian Freeling in 1982 when he was nearly 8 years old. His father, Dutch abstract games designer Christian Freeling, encouraged him to design a variant using a 7×7 gameboard. Demian was already familiar with chess and xiangqi, and the result blends some features from both. Congo became the second-most popular chess variant at the Fanaat games club in Enschede, the Netherlands.
For his Congo engine, Ed van Zon won "Best of the Zillions" First Contest, Best Chess-Related Category in March 2001.More from (Web published)
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