There are two primary aspects to the strategy of DVONN. One is "melee", the mobility race. It involves mainly the neutralizing and blocking of the opponent's young (low and mobi [..]

There are two primary aspects to the strategy of DVONN. One is "melee", the mobility race. It involves mainly the neutralizing and blocking of the opponent's young (low and mobi [..]

There are two primary aspects to the strategy of DVONN. One is "melee", the mobility race. It involves mainly the neutralizing and blocking of the opponent's young (low and mobi [..]

The other aspect to DVONN strategy is settlement. As play progresses and mobility is lost as young stacks either age or get neutralized, the settlement aspect gains growing importance since there are [..]

The "payoff" of a settlement refers to the relative count of the number of pieces in the forseen end-of-game position. For example, if white stacks contain 12 pieces and black stacks [..]

A group of stacks without a DVONN piece that risks the get cut off.

A disarmed stack is one which can move only onto friendly stacks; such a stack loses most of its melee strength. Disarming is the melee tactic of rendering an opponent's stack less useful by evac [..]

Immobilizing is the tactic of rendering an enemy stack unable to move by evacuating all spaces it can move to. An immobilized stack provides no melee strength, although its ownership can give a small [..]

The concept of preventing an opponent's stack from making a certain move by moving your stack away from the target space which it can land on.

To spoil a move or prevent a lifting move by moving atop the enemy stack. Even if the opponent has enough control to retake the stack, he cannot move it because it has become taller.