HEX - Strategy Game
Introduction
The game of Hex was first invented in 1942 by Piet Hein, a Danish scientist, mathematician, writer and poet.
In 1948, John Nash (winner of a Nobel Prize, and later played on the silver screen by Russell Crowe in the movie "A Brilliant Mind"), rediscovered the game, which became popular among mathematics students at Princeton University.
In 1952, Parker Brothers, Inc. popularized the game in the United States as "HEX" (it owes its name to the hexagonal shape of the squares on the board).
HEX also has a unique feature: in this game there is no draw, there is always a winner!
Rules:
HEX is played on a board like the one illustrated on the left.
There are two players, one with the black pieces and the other with the white pieces.
The players take turns.
Each move consists of placing an own piece (black or white) on an unoccupied hexagon of the board.
The object of the game is to form an unbroken chain of pieces (black or white) by connecting the two opposite edges of the player's colour (black or white).
The first player who achieves this goal wins.
