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Example Arimaa position (game 52, before 5s)

Arimaa is a two-player abstract strategy game played on an 8-by-8 board with 32 pieces. A good overview of the game is given on Wikipedia.

Newcomers are encouraged to participate in the chatroom and on the forum (both reachable from the gameroom). There is also a Discord server.

This wiki is written and maintained by members of the Arimaa community and contains various information of varying usefulness.

Introduction

• Video explaining Arimaa in 5 minutes
• Official Arimaa rules
• Beginner's Guide to the Arimaa gameroom
• Live Radio Commentary
• Beginner's Guide to the WC: How to register and participate in a World Championship
• Why we love Arimaa

Improving your game

• Annotated Games: Games with comments about the moves
• Videos: Video Tutorials, Videos of Games with audio comments
• Setup Positions: Some common opening positions
• Material balance: The relative values of pieces
• Bot Slaying: Techniques that work well against old bots
• Sharp bashing: Techniques that work well against Sharp2015

Puzzles

• Arimaa Puzzle Collection
• Unique wins in 2: Collection of puzzles automatically generated from the game database.

External sources

• Books
• Android App

Events

• Reports from various Arimaa events
• Roles
• Radio Commentary Notes
• World Champions: List of all Arimaa world champions
• Computer Champions: List of all Computer Champions

Ongoing Events

• Endless Endgame Event

Statistics

• Bot Bashers: Records in bot bashing
• Elephant awayness
• Statistical Graphs
• Step distributions
• Tablebase Data
• Unique wins in 2/Scoreboard
• Unusual Games: Games containing some unusual situation

Wiki

• Recent changes
• All pages
• Create Account: How to get an account for this wiki.
• Pastebin: Free to use for wiki experiments
• Old wiki

Miscellaneous

• Alternative Ratings
• OTB Match Rules
• Board Game Geek badges for Arimaa
• List of bots: Directory of all known bots
  • Bot Name Origins: The stories behind the names