Kris Burm

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Kris Burm is the Belgian designer of the award-winning GIPF series of abstract board games. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and as of 2007, still lives there.

Published games include:

• Invers, 1991
• Oxford, 1993
• Balanx, 1994
• Tashkent (3x3), 1995
• Flix, 1995
• Orient, 1995
• Quads, 1996
• Tashkent (5x5), 1997
• Dicemaster, 1997
• Bi-litaire, 1997
• Batik, 1997
• GIPF, 1998
• TAMSK, 1998
• ZÈRTZ, 2000
• Elcanto, 2001
• DVONN, 2001
• YINSH, 2003
• PÜNCT, 2005
• TZAAR, 2007

His latest game Tzaar will be available from early 2008, but it will be presold during the game convention Spiel 2007 in Essen, Germany.

All his published games are abstract, except Dicemaster, which is a collectible dice game.

[edit] External links

• Gipf.com short piece on Burm
• Bruno Faidutti on Burm
• Homepage of the GIPF Project games