#1 · Mason Mackaman
6 Nov 2023
Public forum discussion.
6 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023
The wiki page currently lacks details (pages for the specific templates will be created later), however here's some lines in this width-17 template:
a line after an adjacent intrusion: https://hexworld.org/board/#17,:pa16:pb15:pc14:pd14:pe13:pf12:pg12:ph11:pi11:pj10:pk10:pq14:pq13:pq12:pp12:pp11:po11:po10:pn10:pm10l11l12j12k12k11i14h13g14h14g16j13j14n12m12h15h16i15i16j15j16k15k16m15l15m13m14o13
and one with the tall variant of Tom's move https://hexworld.org/board/#17,:pa16:pb15:pc14:pd14:pe13:pf12:pg12:ph11:pi11:pj10:pk10:pq14:pq13:pq12:pp12:pp11:po11:po10:pn10:pm10l11l12j12k12k11i14h13g14h14g16j13j14n12m13l13k15m12n13h15h16j15i17j16j17k16k17n15m16l16l17o13n16p15
The template also shows that 7-6 on 19x19 is connected.
7 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023
Nice! This template was smaller than I expected and gives hope for higher row templates. The smallest nth row single stone templates that have been discovered have widths (starting from n=2): 2, 4, 7, 10, 14, 17. Makes one wonder if there's a smaller 6th row template.
9 Nov 2023
Ow wow, fun line!
22 Dec 2023
It always seemed to me that single stones at the 6th and 7th level are extremely rare and there is no point in studying such templates, however, in one of the recent games (#2414897) I had just such a template on the 27th move.
In my case, the rest of the game turned out to be quite simple, but if the opponent had played harder, then just knowing that the position is a template and the two examples given might not have been enough to win.
Also it would be interesting to ask those who work with strong bots: how do bots rate these templates as absolutely won or not?