Hex: A Strategy Knowledge

Matthew Seymour

Desk of Contents

• 1. Principles
  • 1.1 The swap rule
  • 1.2 Notation
  • 1.3 The exercise of the interactive diagrams
  • 1.4 Playing the game
• 2. Standard ideas
  • 2.1 Board areas
  • 2.2 Templates
  • 2.3 Blocking
  • 2.4 Ladders
  • 2.5 Pre-ladder formations
  • 2.6 Internal templates
  • 2.7 Teams
  • 2.8 Edge templates
  • 2.9 Solving templates by good deal
  • 2.10 A success connections
  • 2.11 Overlapping templates are dilapidated
  • 2.12 Examples
  • 2.13 Standard method
• 3. Tactics
  • 3.1 Blocking ideas
  • 3.2 Templates with overlapping reductions
  • 3.3 Ladder handling
  • 3.4 Ladder escapes
  • 3.5 Negative ladder escapes
  • 3.6 Cascading ladders
  • 3.7 Developed ladder handling
• 4. Strategy
  • 4.1 Kinds of connections
  • 4.2 Ladder escapes
  • 4.3 Territory
  • 4.4 The 2 blocks
  • 4.5 Gaining territory by intrusion
  • 4.6 Unnecessary stones
  • 4.7 Responding to intrusions
  • 4.8 Offer no territory
  • 4.9 Minmaxing
  • 4.10 Difficult in other locations
  • 4.11 Summary of dilapidated and tough blocks
  • 4.12 Attacking stones
  • 4.13 Sizable and narrow fronts
  • 4.14 Deflecting
  • 4.15 The first dawdle
  • 4.16 Commented video games
• 5. Developed ideas
  • 5.1 Template A-5
  • 5.2 Template C-5
  • 5.3 Switchbacks
  • 5.4 Folding under
  • 5.5 J9 ladder destroy out
  • 5.6 Parallel ladders
  • 5.7 “Tom’s dawdle”
  • 5.8 More complex switchbacks
  • 5.9 J9 and fourth-row ladders
  • 5.10 Hiking
• 6. Equivalences
  • 6.1 Edge templates as interior templates
  • 6.2 Extensions of some interior templates
  • 6.3 Unnecessary hexes
  • 6.4 Captured hexes
  • 6.5 One-sided recall
• 7. Developed method
  • 7.1 Corners
  • 7.2 Acute corner patterns
  • 7.3 Obtuse corner openings
  • 7.4 Nook patterns in the opening
  • 7.5 Edges
  • 7.6 Nook pairs
  • 7.7 Undermining
  • 7.8 Opposing obtuse corner stones
  • 7.9 Drawing in
• 8. The outlet
  • 8.1 c2
  • 8.2 a3
  • 8.3 a4
  • 8.4 a5
  • 8.5 a6
  • 8.6 a7
  • 8.7 a8
  • 8.8 a9
  • 8.9 a10
  • 8.10 a11
  • 8.11 c12
  • 8.12 a13
• 9. Commented video games
• A. Edge Templates
  • A.1 A-series
  • A.2 B-series
  • A.3 C-series
  • A.4 D-series
  • A.5 E-series
  • A.6 F-series
  • A.7 G-series
  • A.8 H-series
  • A.9 I-series
  • A.10 J-series
  • A.11 Good ample-series
  • A.12 L-series
  • A.13 M-series
• B. Internal Templates
  • B.1 Two- and three-stone templates
  • B.2 Four-stone templates
  • B.3 Five-stone templates
• C. Printable boards
• D. Bibliography and other resources
  • D.1 Strategy
  • D.2 Other Hex resources
  • D.3 Solved openings
  • D.4 Unnecessary and captured cells

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