Talking about old and older obscure abstract games
Swish and Morro are two games by Christian Freeling presented in GAMES #53 in 1984.
As said in the magazine article, both games use the same 8x8 board, material and also most rules, but each game has a different way to capture (one uses Checkers-like captures, the other uses custodian captures) which leads to very different dynamics.
Most of the early posts about new games came from playtesting and discussions between João Pedro Neto and Bill Taylor. But even before Bill's passing on July 2021, the blog had gradually shifted its focus toward old and obscure two-player abstract board games. The blog will tend to avoid Chess variants, Mancala games, and Go Variants, as dedicated sites for those already exist.
Regarding the chronological tags: older games means 1800s-1940s (pre-WW2),
old games means 1950-1989 (pre-video games),
new games means 1990-2005 (at least for now).
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