General forum: Border Trivia Question

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Border Trivia Question 2012-07-29 TwixtBot Is there a position where White must play on one of the border rows – 1 or 24 – to guarantee a win (excepting the final two plays, of course) ? If so, are these positions always of the sort that White plays on row 1 making a link with a peg on row 3? Or is there a position where White must play on row 1 to guarantee a win AND that play does not make any new links? It’s probably a minor but easy improvement to the bot algorithm if I can ignore those rows until the end. 2012-07-29 Christian K ★ a can imagine such a position, yes if it creates an important fork. 2012-07-29 FatPhil Is there a Twixt question where a supposed bot must post in the General Forum – rather than the twixt forum – to guarantee an answer? 2012-07-29 TwixtBot A thousand apologies for my newbish error.

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