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Y is typically played on a triangular board with hexagonal spaces; the "official" Y board has three points with five-connectivity instead of six-connectivity, but it is just as playable on a regular triangle. Schensted and Titus' book '' Mudcrack Y & Poly-Y '' has a large number of boards for play of Y, all hand-drawn; most of them seem irregular but turn out to be topologically identical to a regular Y board. Here is an image of the "official" board, sold by Kadon : As in most games of this type, one player takes the part of Black and one takes the part of White; they place stones on the board one at a time, neither removing nor moving any previously-placed stones, and the Pie Rule can be used to mitigate any first-move advantage. A simple example board, 8 spaces to a side, is shown below: The rules are as follows:
As in most connection games, the size of the board changes the nature of the game; small boards lend towards pure Tactical play, whereas larger boards tend to make the game more Strategic . Schensted and Titus claim that Y is a superior game to Hex because Hex can be seen as a subset of Y. Consider the following image: The portion of the board at the bottom-right can now be considered a 5x5 Hex board, and played identically. However, this sort of artificial construction on a Y board is extremely uncommon, and the games have different enough tactics (outside of constructed situations) to be considered separate, though related.
The simple (regular) form of Y can be Played By Email , using Richard Rognlie's Play-By-eMail Server . REFERENCES
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