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Zillions of Games is shipped together with a lot of popular board games such as Alquerque, Fox and geese, Go, Gomoku, Jungle, Halma, Nim, Nine Men's Morris, Reversi, Tafl and Tic-tac-toeTic-tac-toe also called noughts and crosses and many other names, is a paper and pencil game between two players, O and X who alternate in marking the spaces in a 3×3 board. A player wins by getting three of their own marks in a horizontal, vertical or di. The package includes many checkersThis article deals with the game of checkers. Checkers is also the name of a Cocker Spaniel after whom Richard Nixon's renowned Checkers speech was named. Checkers is also the name of an American fast-food restaurant chain; see Checkers Drive-In. This art variants, for example ChineseChinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two to six people. The object of the game is to place one's pieces in the corner opposite their starting position by moving them through jumps over other pieces. The game does not actually originate f, Russian and Turkish checkers . Besides standard FIDE chessFor other meanings, see Chess (disambiguation). Chess (from the Persian word Shah is a board game for two players played on a square board divided into eight rows (or ranks and eight columns (or files creating 64 individual squares which alternate in colo, Zillions of Games contains many national chess variants such as ShogiShogi shogi ) is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which originated from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. Shogi is native to Japan, and is sometimes called Japanese, XiangqiXiangqi ( Chinese: ; pinyin: xiangqi, Wade-Giles: hsiang-ch'i; roughly pronounced "shyang-chee"; literally translated as elephant chess is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and shogi are also members, which originated from the 6th ce, Korean chessJanggi is one of a family of strategic board games of which chess and xiangqi are also members, which originated from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga or a close relative thereof. Janggi is native to Korea and is sometimes inaccurately called Kor as well as a number of popular chess variants like UltimaBaroque chess is a chess variant invented in 1962 by Robert Abbott. In 1963, at the suggestion of his publisher, he changed the name to Ultima by which name it is now commonly known. Abbott considers his invention flawed, and he has suggested amendments t, Extinction Chess , Losing Chess, Shatranj, Berolina Chess , Grand Chess and others. It also include some puzzles, for example 15-Puzzle , Towers of Hanoi, Eight queens puzzle and a variety of Solitaires.

However, vastly more games have been created by hobbyists and board game enthusiasts. A total of over 1000 freeware board games (with approximately 5000 variants total) have been written to date in the Zillions language. This includes classic, popular games as well as many newly-invented games. Although the vast majority of the entries, to date, are two-dimensional, the program also supports three-dimensional games to a limited extent. Some of these games are educational and can be used in school classes to teach mathematics (especially geometry) and other subjects. Zillions Development claims that the power of playful learning is significantly underestimated by some educators.

Zillions of Games plays some games very strongly such as Blobs , Nine Men's Morris, Nim and Checkers. It is also respectably good in chess and most chess variants. Generally, it is rated at approximately 1900-2000 in ELO rating systems for chess (for comparison, Grand Master level is above 2500) and most chess variants.

Note that the Zillions game engine itself is not freeware although a free demo version with reduced functionality is available.