Robert Abbott (born 1933) is an American game inventor. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Abbott was an early computer programmer, working with IBM 360assembly language. He turned his hand to designing games from 1962. The IBM System/360 (S/360) is a computer system family announced by International Business Machines on April 7, 1964. ... Assembly language or simply assembly is a human-readable notation for the machine language that a specific computer architecture uses. ...
Among the games he has designed are the chess variant Baroque chess (also known as Ultima); the card game Eleusis; and the game Crossings and Epaminondas. Many of his games are available only in his book, Abbott's New Card Games (Stein & Day 1963). A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ... Baroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. ... Eleusis is a multi-genre card game. ... Crossings is a two-player abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott. ... Epaminondas is an abstract strategy board game invented by Robert Abbott and originally introduced in Sid Sacksons A Gamut of Games as Crossings. ...
Recently, Abbott has turned his attention to inventing what he calls "Mazes with Rules", or "Logic Mazes". Some of the most famous of his logic mazes are the Theseus and the Minotaur set of mazes, and the Sliding Door Maze, which can both be found on his website (see links below).
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