[HN Gopher] Hex: A Strategy Guide ___________________________________________________________________ Hex: A Strategy Guide Author : creata Score : 52 points Date : 2022-03-23 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.mseymour.ca) (TXT) w3m dump (www.mseymour.ca) | mrtweetyhack wrote: | grafs50 wrote: | Love this game! and its game theory underpinnings. | LugarOS wrote: | That game looks cool | tromp wrote: | This complements the 2019 book | | Hex - The Full Story by Ryan B. Hayward and Bjarne Toft | | https://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~hayward/hexbook/hex.html | platz wrote: | how is it guaranteed that games do not not end in a draw? | tromp wrote: | The hexagonal diamond board topology is such that an east-west | connection can only be prevented by a north-south connection. | For more formal proofs, see | | https://sites.google.com/site/javhar1/hexcannotendinadraw | paxys wrote: | If you draw a hex board and try out some connections it will | become immediately clear. There can never be a deadlock. No | matter how you fill out all the squares, either the white OR | the black sides will connect. | jkleiser wrote: | Great! Thanks a lot. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-23 23:00 UTC)