Recently Heion Sedai no Idaten-tachi has this trope though executed in an unimpressive way and ends on an annoying cliffhanger.

Heike Monogatari, also recent (last season) centers around two old men 4D chess players, it's on a much higher level and executed very well, to top it off it's beautiful.

Psycho-Pass I think might have parts like this although it's been so long since I've seen it that I can no longer really recall if it's a major focus.

You could poke around the Lupin the Third series as it's usually about Lupin attempting to outsmart his opponents (people he's trying to jack)

Gundam kind of has Amuro and Char as rivals but ehh.

If you really want to stretch the criteria, Madoka+Rebellion is kind of about this, insofar as the protagonist has to outwit the villain in order to win instead of through sheer brute force.

I wish I knew more. It's a really cool trope but not enough stuff tries to execute it in a clever way. You could also take a look at Fukumoto's manga works, like Buraiden Gai, since you like Kaiji and Akagi.

Speaking of Akagi, you could also try to learn Mahjong, and rewatch it, so it actually makes sense.

>>33864
/AM/ - Autism and Manuscripts

>>33864
>smartness pill
The worst kind of mind game, only immoral degenerate americans can come up and be satisfied with. Also anthropocentric as bible. At least it explores Shulgin's idea that psychologists with their tests are a waste of spacetime.

>>33866
>The worst kind of mind game
and yet, despite knowing this full well, you've allowed yourself to be bamboozled into playing it

>>33867
I see, Tewi outwitted me in the meta-game, what a fitting ending.

>>33868
If you want to discover more animes with mindgames you can try another route. Search whatever personality index you fancy for ENTJ type characters. If that type is somewhere in the leading role there's a high chance the show will have mindgames in it.
On that note consider Kaguya-sama wa Kokusaretai, first season at least, later the mind games become more sparse and less entertaining unfortunately.

>>33869
I already watched Kaguya-sama. Most of it wasn't very impressive but the part with the umbrella was amazing. The characters playing mind games switched goals too quickly. For example, I remember they were playing mental chess but then the narrator said their energy was drained and they both wanted the food on the table (there was only one food item) and the victory condition changed from outwitting the other into grabbing the food first.

>>33864
You uploaded Ted Chiang's understand, which I read before. I would ask for mind game books but this is an anime board and I don't wish to talk of an off-board topic.

>>33870
>this is an anime board
>I don't wish to talk of an off-board topic