Chess is said to be a game possessing 'perfect information'...?

Question

meaning that, in theory, nothing is left to chance, as aposed to other games using dice or cards etc.
Besides chess, checkers and tic tac toe, what other games are there that have 'perfect information'?

Answer 1

Any game that does not leave any decisions to randomness (I.E. Shuffled cards, thrown dice, spinners, etc.) will have perfect information, and are completely dependent upon the skill of the players.

Some examples are Chess, Draughts (or Checkers, if you prefer), Chinese Chess, Chinese Checkers, Go, Pente, Connect Four, and Othello (or Reversi, if you prefer)

Answer 2

The number of possible positions in chess is 10 to the 128th power. Computers have calculation horizons as to keep the perfect game from going into infinity.

31536000 (3.2x10e7) Seconds in a year. If a computer can calculate 1,000,000,000,000 (10e12) moves per second then you are looking at 128 - (12+7) = 109 as an exponent which yields ten to the 109 power years. Religious folks predict an end in a few thousand years as best and scientists give is 80 billion years max. Either way you will not get the "perfect" calculation in chess, cupcake.

Answer 3

There are a number of games in which the board is set up randomly, but there is no randomness once play starts; a few such are Clans (which has hidden information) and That's My Fish (which does not)

However, I suspect the best answer to your question would be the game of Go.

Answer 4

All the chess type games like Shogi, Xiang-chi etc. Then there is go, Nine Men's Morris, arimaa, Chinese checkers.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Mancala, Chinese Checkers, and the peg game at Cracker Barrel.

Answer 7

Go, Chinese Chess, Japanese Chess, there may be others.