I had 2 questions about LOA, which after scouring the web multiple times, I cannot find anything useful...

Is there any Theory in the Opening of any sort, or tactics ( i.e - in chess you have pins, skewers etc. )
The best I've found is rewatching the live video recordings of games on the MSO Youtube channel

Is there a way to use an engine to analyse LOA Games on any website?
I think fairy stockfish has been used on websites such as Lishogi - for Mini Shogi, but is a similar thing availble for LOA.

Thanks

Some good questions. There is not much out there that I can find either.
This is an interesting read linesofaction.tumblr.com/post/104631743970/fundamental-lines-of-action-strategy but doesn't go into too much depth.
We are hoping to add studies to PlayStrategy for all our variants, at which time will we create some content for LOA.

There used to be computing competitions for LOA (www.chessprogramming.org/Lines_of_Action) but afaik there are no free open source engines. We have built a simple bot (@PS-Greedy-Four-Move) and hope to improve on it in the future.

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There are a dozen articles, but the level is not great. Some examples which i found:

http://linesofaction100.blogspot.com/
linesofaction.tumblr.com/lines-of-action-strategy-guidebook
www.mathematik.hu-berlin.de/~ploog/BSB/LOA.pdf

http://www.abstractgames.org/uploads/1/1/6/4/116462923/abstract_games_issue_1.pdf
http://www.abstractgames.org/uploads/1/1/6/4/116462923/abstract_games_issue_2.pdf
http://www.abstractgames.org/uploads/1/1/6/4/116462923/abstract_games_issue_3.pdf
http://www.abstractgames.org/uploads/1/1/6/4/116462923/abstract_games_issue_5.pdf

Opening theory is not very discovered, but i think Vashod plays very precisely, so you can observe his games.

there are some engines, but in LOA they strength is not based on strategy, so in the opening the are quite weak. However they calculate great in the endings, where people easly overlook tactics based on changing possible moves by your pieces.

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IMO, the articles in Abstract Games Magazine is the best place to start.

And thanks for mentioning my linesofaction100 blog! I have neglected it for too long, so maybe this will inspire me to work on it again. I have a few thoughts about theory which I need to work out before blogging about it.

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