Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 23:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: TwiXt rules

db...@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (David Bush) writes:

> ... there was an error in an earlier posting regarding what
> constitutes a drawn position. The error was later corrected.  You
> can indeed link up in tight situations, as long as there is no link
> which actually crosses the path of your intended link.

Not always, as I mentioned during the discussion of this back in
November.  The position

  - - - - O - O - - - - -
  - - - - - O - O - - - -
  - - - - O - O - - - - -
  - - - - - O - O - - - -
  - X - X O X O X - X - X
  X - X - X O X O X - X -
  - X - X O X O X - X - X
  X - X - X O X O X - X -
  - - - - O - O - - - - -
  - - - - - O - O - - - -
  - - - - O - O - - - - -
  - - - - - O - O - - - -

is a forced draw, even though there are no links, nor were there links
in any ancestor position.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil