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"Chess is in its essence a game, in its form an art, and in its execution a science" (Baron Tassilo)
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Slash:
http://www.marksteeregames.com/Slash_rules.pdf
Slash is really just Hex morphed onto a Go board. Not my most exciting discovery but of minor interest in case you want to play Hex and only have a Go board handy.
I thought it was more like Gonnect, or whatever it is called, with a unique diagonal connection rule. And Gonnec is Hex morphed onto a Go board.
No, Gonnect is not Hex morphed onto a Go board. Gonnect has nothing to do with Hex. In Gonnect, a player can form a connection between any two sides, just for starters. In Gonnect you can have a draw.
Slash is isomorphic to Hex. If you take a winning position in Slash and shear the board, sliding the top row to the right and to a lesser degree succeeding rows under it, you arrive at the equivalent Hex position. A randomly filled board in Slash produces exactly one winner, etc. It's the same game as Hex.
Actually, it seems to be close to the John-Nash-version of the game. If I understand the wikipedia entry correctly, Nash used a square grid and
painted one set of diagonal lines on it.
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