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[pbmserv] New game: Conhex
Conhex, a nice map colouring game by Michail Antonow, has been added to the
server. Players take turns staking out territory and trying to connect
corridors of territory between their edges of the board.
conhex challenge yourname camb
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Help For the Game Of Conhex
Introduction
Welcome to the network Conhex server. The Conhex challenge command is
described here. Other commands are the same as for all pbmserv games.
conhex challenge userid1 userid2
Starts a new game between userid1 and userid2.
Rules
Conhex is an abstract strategy game for two players, Vert and Horz.
Vert aims to complete a contiguous chain of Vert cells between the top
and bottom edges of the board, while Horz aims to complete a
contiguous chain of Horz cells between the left and right sides. Draws
are not possible.
The board consists of 41 cells, each with a number of holes marked
'+'. The centre cell has five holes, the edge cells have three holes,
and all other cells have six holes each. A cell is conquered by the
first player to occupy at least half of its holes.
All cells and holes are initially empty.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
1 +---------------------------------------------+ 1
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
2 | +----+----+----+----+----+----+ | 2
| / | | | \ |
3 |-----+ | | | +-----| 3
4 | | +----+----+----+----+ | | 4
| | / | | \ | |
5 | +----+ | | +----+ | 5
6 | | | +----+----+ | | | 6
| | | / | \ | | |
7 |-----+ +----+ | +----+ +-----| 7
8 | | | | -+- | | | | 8
| | | | / \ | | | |
9 | +----+ +---+ + +---+ +----+ | 9
| | | | \ / | | | |
10 | | | | -+- | | | | 10
11 |-----+ +----+ | +----+ +-----| 11
| | | \ | / | | |
12 | | | +----+----+ | | | 12
13 | +----+ | | +----+ | 13
| | \ | | / | |
14 | | +----+----+----+----+ | | 14
15 |-----+ | | | +-----| 15
| \ | | | / |
16 | +----+----+----+----+----+----+ | 16
| | | | | |
| | | | | |
17 +---------------------------------------------+ 17
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
Each turn the current player places one of their pieces on an empty
hole '+', which may conquer one or more cells. Cells conquered by Vert
are coloured '|' and cells conquered by Horz are coloured '-'.
For instance, Vert has conquered the top left cell and Horz has
conquered the other two coloured cells in the following example. One
of the Horz cells is occupied by three pieces of each colour, so we
know that Horz must have placed their third piece there before Vert
did.
v---------------------------------------------+
||||||||| | | | |
||||||||| | | | |
||||||||+----+----+----+----h----h----+ |
|||||||/ | |---------| \ |
|-----v | |---------| +-----|
| | +----v----v----h----+ | |
| | / |---------| \ | |
| +----+ |---------| +----+ |
| | | h----h----v | | |
| | | / | \ | | |
|-----+ +----+ | +----+ +-----|
| | | | -+- | | | |
Notes
The following board shows a game won by Vert, who has completed a
contigous chain of Vert cells between the top and bottom edges of the
board.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
1 +---------------------------------------------+ 1
||||||||| | | | |
||||||||| | | | |
2 ||||||||v----v----v----+----+----+----+ | 2
|||||||||||||||||||||||| | \ |
3 |-----v||||||||||||||||| | +-----| 3
4 | |||||||+----+||||v----h----+ | | 4
| ||||||/ |||||||||||-----\ | |
5 | h----+ |||||||||||------h----+ | 5
6 | |----| v||||+----v-----------| | 6
| |----| /|||||| \----------| |
7 |-----h----v----v||||||| +----h----+-----| 7
8 |----------|||||||||||-h- | |----------| 8
|----------||||||||||/---\ | |----------|
9 |-----h----+||||+---h--h--+---+ +----h-----| 9
|-----| ||||||--------/ | | |-----|
10 |-----| ||||||------+- | | |-----| 10
11 |-----+ v||||+------| +----+ h-----| 11
| | ||||||\-----| / | | |
12 | | |||||||h----h----h | | | 12
13 | +----+|||||||---------| +----+ | 13
| | \||||||---------| / | |
14 | | v||||v----v----+----h | | 14
15 |-----+ ||||||||||||||||||||| +-----| 15
| \ ||||||||||||||||||||| / |
16 | +----+----+----+----v||||v----h | 16
| | | ||||||||||| |
| | | ||||||||||| |
17 +---------------------------------------------+ 17
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q
Syntax
Vert moves first. The move syntax is:
conhex move board# userid password coord
where "coord" specifies an empty board hole marked '+' in the form F7.
All cells conquered by a move are automatically coloured.
References and History
Conhex board and rules copyright Michail Antonow 2002.
Implementation and help file by Cameron Browne, November 2003.