Kris Burm

Kris Burm is a Belgian game designer specializing in abstract board games. He is best known for his award-winning GIPF series of games. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and still lives there today.

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

All his published games are abstract, except Dicemaster, which is a collectible dice game and Tamsk, which has a real time element.

External links

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