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Kensington

Kensington is an abstract strategy board game devised by Brian Taylor and Peter Forbes in 1979, named after London's Kensington Gardens, which contains the mosaic upon which the gameboard is patterned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensington_(game)

Quick rules

The board is made up of 7 hexes, one in the center and six surrounding. The hexes are joined by squares along the sides, and the squares are joined by triangles. The game is played on the intersections where the lines join. The object of the game is to control all six points of a hex. Players play one piece, of their 15, at a time until all pieces are placed, then pieces are moved one at a time from one intersection to another. If a player has a piece at all three of a triangles points, he can reposition any 1 of his opponent's pieces. If a player controls all 4 points of a square, then he can reposition 2 of his opponent's pieces. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2197/kensington

Excerpts from the packaging

"KENSINGTON is the brilliant outcome of arduous research by two eccentric British friends to develop a game of pure skill that can be easily learnt and as enjoyably played by children and adults in each and every country of the world, irrespective of its lanugage or way of life. Not since chess and chequers (draughts) first appeared from the east a dozen centuries or so ago has there been such a remarkable break-through in the games world..."

"Satisfied at last that they had invented the greatest board game in a thousand years, they were faced with the problem of finding a name for it. "Why not 'Kensington', where it all happened?" asked Forbes, only to hear the out-of-towner Taylor condemn that as "repulsively ritzy". But Forbes argued that he saw Kensington quite differently, having happily started his education in a Notting Hill (State) Primary School alongside children whose nationalities ran to 57 varieties and having since got to know and love every inch of London's most cosmopolitan Borough. Besides it was a marvellous excuse not to call it something ridiculous like Bricko, Whoomph! or plain Yuckety Yuck, a depressing toy trade habit."