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| '''Alexander Johan de Voogt''' or simply '''Alex de Voogt''' (], ] ]) is a ] psychologist working at the ] and best known for his work on the |
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Alexander Johan de Voogt or simply Alex de Voogt (Baarn, may 3 1970) is a dutch psychologist working at the University of Leiden and best known for his work on the logics of traditional mancala games. He is also director of Board Game Studies, the main scientific journal on board games.
De Voogt began studying mancalas in 1990s, while he was in Zanzibar for a field study on the swahili language. At the time, he began collecting the rules of the Bao mancala game through interviews with acknowledged Bao masters, his efforts resulting in the first known transcription of bao rules. In 1995 he published his PhD thesis Limits of the Mind: Towards a Characterization of Bao Mastership where he analyzed the forma mentis of Zanzibar bao masters. This work settled the basis for all subsequent research activity by De Voogt. Among the many mancalas De Voogt has been collecting information on and studying there are Katro (Madagascar), Owela (Namibia), Warri (Barbados), Hawalis (Oman), Ohvalhu (Maldives) and Dakon and Olinda (Sri Lanka).
Selected writings
- Limits of the mind: Towards a characterisation of the bao mastership, 1995
- New approaches to board games research: asian origins and future perpectives, 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.