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Topic: Hex Win Proof?
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Dr. Eric Wingler

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Re: Hex Win Proof?
Posted: Mar 23, 2004 4:41 PM
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"Alex Malkis" <alexloeschediesmalk@line.cs.uni-sb.de> wrote
in message news://c3q50e$19lq$1@news.wplus.net...
> I heard there is a proof of some fixpoint theorem
(Brouwer's fixpoint
> theorem, maybe?) with the help of the hex game.
>
> Does anyone know?
***********************************************
There is a book by Yu. A. Shashkin called "Fixed Points."
The proof that one player must always win at hex is an
exercise in this book, but I'm not sure that the author
expects the reader to use a fixed point theorem.


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