Sons of Steve Garvey: Connect 4 Round 11

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Connect 4 Round 11

8 comments:

David said...: Red is guaranteed a victory if it gets deadlocked in column G. The important thing is to stop any potential black strings of four on the top left, thus column B or E are the best plays. Column F is useless because the game will never get to checker position #3 on Column G. Simple patience by the readers wins this game.; 11/13/2008 6:32 AM
MCR said...: yeah play defensively at this point. if we fill all the non-column G circles, it works out that black has to play first in column G, and red gets the win.; 11/13/2008 7:36 AM
QuadSevens said...: Column F!!!

If the writers take column F right now, they are guaranteed a win in two moves. Column F gives them two winning spots in Column G! This is same thing mcr was suggesting for us a couple rounds ago. We need to block this right now, or we will lose.

Column F for defense. Once we hit round 13, we can use both moves in column C and win.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF!; 11/13/2008 8:22 AM
QuadSevens said...: I need a little clearification of the adjusted rules. I know that in Round 14, the readers get two consecutive moves. But will the writers get one move in Round 14 before we get our two moves?

VOTE COLUMN F FOR THE ADVANCED BLOCK!; 11/13/2008 9:00 AM
Eric Karros said...: I guess it was written a little unclearly. If Round 13 ends with no winner, the Writers will get their 1 move in Round 14, then the Readers will move twice. Not sure if it'll matter though...; 11/13/2008 9:31 AM
QuadSevens said...: True. And I just realized that column F doesn't really matter because spot 2 in column G gives us a win. Delay, delay, delay, for round 14.; 11/13/2008 9:39 AM
Neeebs (The Original) said...: Quad:

Why in the world would you propose Column F.

If we play column F, then Black will block our diagonal four row run, thus virtually assuring a deadlock.

We want to let Black be forced to use its turn to fill Column F so we can get the victory.

Or...we can fill column F on our two move round fourteen with a Victory.

STAY AWAY FROM COLUMN F UNTIL ROUND 14.

I AGREE WITH DAVID.; 11/13/2008 11:31 AM
QuadSevens said...: Yeah...Column F doesn't really matter. We have multiple ways to win when we get our two moves. Both moves in column G will win. Both moves in column C will win as well. With one move in column A before round 14, we'll also be able to win there with two moves.

I misread the board earlier. Looks like A is winning anyways.; 11/13/2008 11:55 AM