Accasta

Accasta

Designer: Dieter Stein
Type: Abstract
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/9060
Available from: http://accasta.com/

Accasta is an abstract board game for two players. Influenced by Dr. Emanuel Lasker's Lasca and Wladyslaw Glinksi's Hexagonal Chess, the designer tried to achieve a clean and original game using stacks and a hexagonal board.

In spring 1998, after a long time of development, Accasta was ready to be published on the Web and in the German game inventor's magazine Spiel & Autor, Vol. 34.

It has a clear, very consistent structure. The main idea is the use of stacked pieces. Other features are multiple moves and the possiblity to liberate previously captured pieces (no piece is ever removed from board during play).

Accasta took part in some game design competitions and was one of the finalists of the Premio Archimede 1998 in Italy.

In 2001 the first version for online play was implemented for Richard's PBeM Server.

With the publication of Abande in 2005 and Attangle one year later, Dieter Stein's 'Stacking Game Trilogy' was completed.