[HN Gopher] Hex: A Strategy Guide
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       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
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       | Hex - The Full Story by Ryan B. Hayward and Bjarne Toft
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       | 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
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         | 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.
        
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