WELCOME TO HOMEPAGE OF CONNECT6

The Connect6 game, first introduced by Dr. I-Chen Wu, is a fair and highly complex game with simple rules. The game is a kind of 6-in-a-row game.  However, each player can place two stones for each move, except for the first player's first move.  The game is intuitively fair in the sense that one player always has one more stone than the other after making each move.

Related Pages:

• Connect6 homepage. (The current one)
• Connect6 Chinese homepage. (六子棋中文版首頁) (will be phased out later)
  • New Chinese homepage: http://www.connect6.org/web.
• Introduction to Connect6.
• Introduction to generalized k-in-a-row games.
• Frequently Asked Question (FAQ) page.
• The paper about Connect6, published in ICGA.
• The paper about generalized k-in-a-row games, published in ACG11.
• The Connect6 organization (being organized)

We would be grateful to game web sites who support online Connect6 games.  If your web sites have supported online Connect6 games, please send us email at connect6@java.csie.nctu.edu.tw.  Your web sites will be added into the following list (according to the times when you inform us). 

• CYC game site: http://www.cycgame.com/. (many good Chinese players in this site)
• Little Golem: www.littlegolem.net (many European good players in this site)
• pente.org
• www.ludoteka.com (Spanish; a Spanish introduction about Connect6 can be found in gomezarrausi.blogspot.com.)
• BrainKing.com.

The current Connect6 forums are listed as follows:

• http://www.connect6.org/forum (English)
• http://www.connect6.org/chinese/forum (Traditional Chinese)
• http://bbs.cycgame.com/ (Traditional Chinese)
• http://groups.msn.com/connect6 (Traditional Chinese)
• http://connect6.baidubar.com/bar/ (Simplified Chinese)
• www.littlegolem.net (English)
• pente.org (English)
• www.ludoteka.com (Spanish)
• BrainKing.com (Multi-lingual)

News:

• May 24th ~ June 1st, 2006: The 11th Computer Olympiad started to include Connect6 as a contest game. The result is here.
• July 16th, 2006: The first Annual NCTU-Cup Connect6 open tournament (The first Connect6 open tournament for human players in the world) was held in Taiwan. See the Chinese page or the English page for the results. 
• August 4th ~ 5th: Professor I-Chen Wu was invited to give a keynote speech in the conference, Chinese Computer Games Conferences-CCGC 2006. He also visited relevant people in Chinese Qiyuan (means College of Chess-Like Games) and Shanghai Qiyuan.

Connect6 Programs:

• NCTU6: by Wu and Chang.
  • Gold of the 11th Computer Olympiad.
  • Available in the web site http://www.cycgame.com/connect6 (in Chinese), starting from early July.
  • A simplified version (in Chinese) is available here.
• X6: by Liou and Yen.
  • Silver of the 11th Computer Olympiad.
  • Available at http://134.208.3.156/x6/download/ (in Chinese).
• EVG: by Huang and Hsu.
  • Bronze of the 11th Computer Olympiad.

Connect6 editors:

• Connect6 Editor: by Wu.
  • Branching is allowed.
  • Not available yet.
• X6: by Liou and Yen.
  • No branching.
  • Available at http://134.208.3.147/downloads/x6/ (in Chinese).

Articles:

• I-Chen Wu, and Dei-Yen Huang, "A New Family of k-in-a-row Games", the 11th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG'11), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2005.
• I-Chen Wu, Dei-Yen Huang and Hsiu-Chen Chang, "Connect6", ICGA Journal (SCI), Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 234-241, December 2005.
• I-Chen Wu and Shi-Jim, Yen, "NCTU6 Wins Connect6 Tournament", to appear in ICGA Journal (SCI), 2006.
• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) of Connect6.

All comments are welcome to send to connect6@java.csie.nctu.edu.tw.  

Thank you.

Connect6 Working Group

Currently supported by
Internet Application Technology Laboratory
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Chiao Tung University
Hsinchu, Taiwan