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Alexander de Voogt

Alexander Johan de Voogt or simply Alex de Voogt is a Dutch researcher and Professor at Drew University, who worked as a curator of African Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History and best known for his work on the history and distribution of traditional mancala games. He is also editor of Board Game Studies, the main scientific journal on the history of board games.

Selected writings
Limits of the mind: Towards a characterisation of the bao mastership, 1995 • New approaches to board games research: asian origins and future perspectives, 1995 • Mancala Board Games, British Museum Press, Londra 1997 • Seeded players: East African game of Bao, Natural History, New York, 1998. • Distribution of mancala board games: A methodological Inquiry, «Board Games Studies» 2, 1999, pp. 104–114. • (with H. H. L. M. Donkers and J. W. H. M Uiterwijk) Human versus machine problem-solving: Winning openings in Dakon, in «Board Games Studies», 3, pp. 79–88, 2000 • (with H. H. L. M. Donkers and J. W. H. M. Uiterwijk) Mancala games: Topics in mathematics and artificial intelligence, in Proceedings of the Colloquium Board Games in Academia IV, Fribourg: Edition Universitaire 2001, pp. 133–146. • (with F. Gobet and J. Retschitzki) Moves in Mind: The Psychology of Board Games. Psychology Press, Hove 2004. • "A question of excellence, a century of African masters". Africa World Press, Trenton NJ 2005. • "Mancala games and their suitability for players with visual impairments", Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness 104(11):725–731. • (with W. Crist and A.-E. Dunn-Vaturi) "Ancient Egyptian at Play: Board Games Across Borders", Bloomsbury Academic Press, London, 2016. ==External links==
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