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Hi Everyone,

Here's a puzzle for Go experts and those interested in Go variants.  The 
game is Gonnect (rules attached below).

Black to play and win:

>  8  - - - - - - - x
>  7  - - x - - o - -
>  6  - - - o o x x -
>  5  - - - o x - - -
>  4  - - o x x x - -
>  3  - o o x - - - -
>  2  - - o - - - o -
>  1  - - - - - - x -
>
>     A B C D E F G H

This puzzle was printed in Abstract Games Magazine #6 without the Black 
piece at G1, which unfortunately made the puzzle invalid.

As far as I can work out the puzzle with the extra piece is now valid.  Can 
anyone disprove this?

Thanks,
Cameron


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GONNECT

Gonnect is a new abstract connection game. It uses the basic rules of Go
(each player drops a stone into an empty cell in turn; stones with no
liberty are captured; there are no suicides; players cannot repeat the
previous board position) with the simplification that players may not pass.
Gonnect also has a much simpler winning condition: a player wins by
connecting a group of their stones between any two opposite edges of the
board (or the adversary has no valid move).

Some notes and playing tactics gathered by players are available at
http://sites.uol.com.br/vascog/gv