Tom Braunlich is an American customizable card game (CCG) designer.

Career

Thomas Braunlich, son of Frank H. Braunlich Jr. and Phyllis Braunlich, is from

Tulsa, Oklahoma Tulsa ( ) is the List of municipalities in Oklahoma, second-most-populous city in the U.S. state, state of Oklahoma, after Oklahoma City, and the List of United States cities by population, 48th-most-populous city in the United States. The po ...

, and is a journalism graduate.Charm, Robert (March 29, 1983). "Chairmen of the board games: A Pente tournament held in Boston: Is it play or is it war?", ''

The Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe,'' also known locally as ''the Globe'', is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Boston Globe'' is the oldest and largest daily new ...

''. Braunlich and Rollie Tesh were world champions of ''

Pente Pente is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel. A member of the M,n,k-game, m,n,k game family, Pente stands out for its Custodian capture, custodial capture mechanic, which ...

'', a game originally published by

Parker Brothers Parker Brothers (known as Parker outside of North America) was an American toy and game manufacturer which in 1991 became a brand of Hasbro. More than 1,800 games were published under the Parker Brothers name since 1883. It remained family owne ...

, and later by

Decipher DECIPHER is a web-based resource and database of genomic variation data from analysis of patient DNA. It documents submicroscopic Chromosome abnormality, chromosome abnormalities (Deletion (genetics), microdeletions and Gene duplication, duplic ...

. In 1993, Braunlich and Tesh approached Decipher with their idea for a licensed

collectible card game A collectible card game (CCG), also called a trading card game (TCG) among other names, is a type of card game that mixes strategy game, strategic deck building elements with features of trading cards. The genre was introduced with ''Magic: The G ...

, the result of which they published as '' Star Trek: The Next Generation Customizable Card Game'' (1994). Tom Braunlich worked for

. He helped create the ''

Star Wars Customizable Card Game ''Star Wars: Customizable Card Game'' (''SW:CCG'') is an out-of-print customizable card game based on the ''Star Wars'' fictional universe. It was created by Decipher, Inc., which also produced the '' Star Trek Customizable Card Game'' and '' ...

'' which was Decipher's most monetarily successful CCG and their second-most successful game in terms of longevity. Braunlich is also a writer on games, including Pente and chess, and organizer of chess tournaments. Braunlich holds a USCF Life Master rating in chess. On numerous occasions Braunlich has served as the director for the Jerry Spann Memorial Tournament, also known as the Oklahoma Open tournament. Braunlich is also the author of ''Weather Knight: A World War II Biography of Frank H. Braunlich Jr''.

Publications

Scholastics and the Soul of Chess: Is Scholastic Chess Killing Tournament Chess, or Saving It?
(July 2004)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Braunlich, Tom American chess players American game designers Artists from Tulsa, Oklahoma Chess administrators Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Sportspeople from Tulsa, Oklahoma Year of birth missing (living people)