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1 online resource (320 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Prologue; Preface; Acknowledgments; Permissions; Rules of Hex; 1: Birth; 1.1 Polygon; 1.2 Design of Hex: first part; 1.3 Four colours and crossing lines; 1.4 War and poems; 1.5 Design of Hex: final part; 2: Preparing to launch; 2.1 Will Polygon sell?; 2.2 Call for puzzles; 2.3 Parenthesis talk; 3: Politiken; 3.1 Vil De laere Polygon?; 3.2 Polygon columns; 3.3 Polygon pads; 3.4 Polygon salons; 3.5 Lindhard-Møller game; 3.6 Polygon peters out; 4: Polygon puzzlist; 4.1 Mystery of missing drafts; 4.2 Puzzle drafts |
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4.3 Thorborg puzzle4.4 Unpublished Polygon booklet; 4.5 Tornehave Gambit; 4.6 Hein-Lindhard game; 4.7 Perplexing Puzzle 45; 4.8 War; 4.9 Solutions; 5: Rebirth; 5.1 New game in Fine Hall; 5.2 First player wins; 5.3 No draws; 5.4 Longer side wins; 5.5 Hex gets its name; 6: Games and machines; 6.1 Contagion; 6.2 1-2-2 Hex; 6.3 Rex; 6.4 Gale's game, or Bridg-it; 6.5 Y; 6.6 Poly-Y; 6.7 Switches; 6.8 Solutions; 7: Hex goes global; 7.1 Mathematical games; 7.2 Hex history mystery; 8: Is Hex easy?; 8.1 Bridg-it falls; 8.2 Solving Bridg-it: an example; 8.3 Will Hex fall?; 8.4 Losing Hex openings |
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8.5 Hex is probably hard9: Hex theory; 9.1 Side connections; 9.2 Art of Hex; 9.3 Inferior cell analysis; 9.4 Handicap strategy; 9.5 Solutions; 10: Rex theory; 10.1 Winning openings; 10.2 Terminated Rex; 10.3 Pairing strategies; 10.4 Inferior cells; 11: Quest for strategies; 11.1 Lindhard's 6×6 strategy; 11.2 Letters to Gardner; 11.3 Back to Pittsburgh; 11.4 Go lessons; 11.5 Computers and games; 11.6 Automated solvers; 11.7 Solutions; 12: Rise of bots; 12.1 Shannon's circuit; 12.2 Adding virtual connections; 12.3 Battling bots; 12.4 Monte Carlo Tree Search; 12.5 Almost human; 12.6 AlphaGo |
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12.7 Neural net Hex-botsEpilogue; Chronology; Appendix A: Politiken puzzles; A.1 Politiken Polygon puzzles; A.2 Politiken Polygon openings; A.3 Politiken Polygon solutions; Appendix B: Unpublished Lindhard puzzles; B.1 Lindhard puzzles; B.2 Lindhard openings; B.3 Lindhard solutions; Appendix C: Henderson Hex puzzles; C.1 Henderson puzzles; C.2 Henderson solutions; Appendix D: Rex puzzles; D.1 Rex puzzles; D.2 Rex solutions; Appendix E: Open problems; E.1 Winning cells; E.2 Inferior cells; E.3 Efficient wins; E.4 Losing cells in Rex; E.5 Simple heuristics; E.6 Cylindrical Hex; Bibliography |
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Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Toft, Bjarne
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| ISBN |
9780429629334 |
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0429629338 |
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