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• Winning strategy
  A ''strategy'' for a player is a rule that specifies the player's next move from every possible position. If we fix a strategy for Red and a strategy f ...r a player if that player has a winning strategy when her opponent gets to move next.
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• Games from the 14th Little Golem TwixtPP Championship
  ...work. 19.r16 was probably one of the best options. But 21.n16 was a losing move. Instead, 21.s13 had some complicated variations. Black was already in a be ...ction (i13) I was clearly in a better position. 12.m10 was really the only move for black. After 15.o13, the stage was very similar to my game against mara
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• Edge template V1a
  This template often appears as a third move, for instance in the [[a3 opening]], because the played piece is guaranteed to link to one edge and is not to ...ause it reaches 5 rows into the board, but it rarely occurs outside of the opening, because of the huge size of the template; the template requires 31 empty h
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• A3 opening
  {{wrongtitle|title=a3 opening}} === Second move: i10 ===
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• Dead cell
  For example, in the following hypothetical situation (with Red to move), Red might wonder whether the piece at e2 could somehow be useful as a [[l ...t move. Such a cell is called ''vulnerable'' for the player who should not move there.
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• Bridg-It
  ...a special case of the Shannon (edge) switching game, for which an optimal move can be found in polynomial time using matroid theory. In other words, the g ...ee graphs (and in particular makes a move in the middle game). After Red's move, both the left and right graphs are trees.
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• Solutions to Piet Hein's puzzles
  The unique opening move for which the board will be completely filled is Red a2 (or equivalently on No other opening move fills the board completely. If Red opens at b2, they win in at most 4 more
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• Bill LeBoeuf vs. Universidad de Oviedo
  ...university class in Spain and agreed to comment on why he was making each move. The game took place on [http://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=9 You can see the diagram for each move by following along at [https://hexworld.org/board/#13c1,a3d6g7h4f5g6e7e8f7g
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• Openings on 13 x 13
  ==The first move== ...s higher, we would swap it, and if less, we would not. The most ''common'' opening moves played are '''A3''', '''B2''' and '''A2''', in that order, all in the
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• Short diagonal
  Especially in the opening, a move anywhere on the short diagonal is usually good for either player, due to it
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• Joseki
  ...asy - picking a correct joseki is as difficult as picking a correct global move. Therefore, this subject is addressed mostly to advanced players. ...sts 2-10 moves by each player, depending on how far from an edge the first move by player A was. When the final position is reached, player A has a fixed e
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• David Boll Hex FAQ
  ...rn players use the [[swap rule]], so opening in the center is not a viable opening.'' with Red having the first move. For notational purposes, the board
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• Reverse Hex
  ...ues to play the second-player winning strategy as before (i.e., Red's next move will be somewhere other than where Red just placed an imaginary blue stone ...se good moves are often good for both players. Despite the appearances the opening and middle-game phases are fairly important.
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• Corner move
  During the opening phase of a game of Hex, both players try to occupy strategically important == How to reply to a corner move ==
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• Openings on 11 x 11
  Some of the most popular opening moves among strong players on Little Golem are c2, i2, a3, and a11 (and the ...ggested in this article are certainly not the only ways to respond to each move, and even on 11×11 there is some room for creativity!
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• Openings on 19 x 19
  ...oard, though it varies considerably from game to game. This article covers opening strategy that is most relevant in the first 10-30 moves of the game. Some o * While [[corner move|corner moves]] are still good moves, playing near the middle of your oppone
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• Strategic advice from KataHex
  Playing near your own edge with no nearby stones is a bad idea in the opening and even middlegame. This is one of the most common mistakes among human pl * Playing near your own edge in the opening or early middlegame should be a "last resort". I would recommend never doin
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