Chess
Sometimes called Western or International Chess to distinguish it from other chess variants.

Chess 960
Also called Fischer Random, is a chess variant in which creativity and talent would be more important.

Checkers family
Pool checkers.
This game is a variant of draughts. It is played on an 8×8 board.

Suicide checkers.
Also called anti-checkers, giveaway checkers or losing draughts.

Halma
The game is played by two or four players on opposing corners of the board. The goal of the game is to transfer all of one's pieces from one's own camp into the camp in the opposing corner. Each turn, a player either moves a single piece to an adjacent open square, or jumps over one or more pieces in sequence.

Nine Men's Morris (Mill)
Each player has nine pieces, or "men", which move among the board's twenty-four intersections. As in checkers, the object of the game is to leave the opposing player with less than three pieces or no legal moves.

International draughts
It is played on a 10×10 board. Pieces can also capture backward, not only forward.

Chinese checkers
objective of the game is to place one's pieces in the corner opposite their starting position of a pitted hexagram by single moves or jumps over other pieces.

Go
The object of Go is to gain control of territories and capture enemy stones. Go is easy to learn but gives all types of players many challenging hours of fun. Go is strategic game played by alternately placing black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a grid board. The objective is to surround pieces of the opponent. Stones are removed if they are completely surrounded. The game combines beauty and intellectual challenge.

Othello or Reversi
Reversi and Othello are names for a game which involves play on an square grid with pieces. The objective is to finish the game with the greater amount of pieces.

"N-in-a-row" games


Gomoku
Also called "Five in a row". The winner is the player who gets row of five stones horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.

Connect6
Two players alternately place stones on empty places of a board. The one who gets six or more stones in a row (horizontally, vertically or diagonally) wins the game.

Four-In-A-Row
Also known as "Four in a Line". The objective is to connect 4 pieces in horizontal, vertical or diagonal line