Talk:Connect Four

What source says that "Victor Allis's thesis is actually a PhD thesis, not a master thesis"? Reading the thesis on http://www.connectfour.net/Files/connect4.pdf, I find that it clearly states on the first page: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Masters Thesis, October 1988

BuilderQ 00:33, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Do not point to User:

Tromp has since solved all board sizes where width+height is at most 15.

Tromp: please find a way to make this citation without pointing to User: stuff.

Fplay 01:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

"Strategy and tactics" needs work

The image described as "A Connect Four game in progress" shows a game between orange and yellow. The text near it, in the Strategy and tactics section, describes the old image. I think the text is a useful example of a Connect Four strategy, and this new image should be changed to reflect it. The old image was more useful, but the new one looks more polished. I'm reverting to the old image for now, as it matches the text. IChrisI 05:33, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Talking about the image, it seems to my eyes that the diferent peices are too similar in colour. then again, i do have a slight red/green colour-blindness problem. i still can't tell the colours apart easily though, and i can't be the only one with this problem. somebody please replace the image with a similar board, but different colour peices, like blue&yellow. -Grim- 00:09, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Connect 3 ('StraThreeGo')

There is a "3 in a Row" game on a 4x4 board. I have encountered it at http://www.shockwave.com/gamelanding/arcadia.jsp , and don't know if it is worthy of a full article here at WikiPedia... -- Jokes Free4Me 14:58, 24 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Non-standard Variations

Variations of the standard Connect Four game:

1.) wrap-around left and right sides. If you play this way, you can count a string of four pieces that wraps off one side onto the other. Logically it is like playing the game on a cylinder. (I guess you could also try having the top and bottom edges 'wrap around', but I think that'd not work very well because of gravity. This type of wrapping is akin to two linked cylinders; it's not quite the same as a sphere.)

If you link left to right and top to bottom, you're playing on a torus.

2.) inverse Connect Four. You try to force the other player to make a line of four pieces (2-way inverse). This version can also be played with a person who has limited cognitive abilities and/or simply likes to randomly put the pieces in the piece holder. (1-way inverse plus random filling)

3.) checkerboard Connect Four. You play on a horizontal surface (maybe larger or smaller) if you don't have the usual vertical game set.

4.) connect 5. You aim to get 5 pieces in a row. (harder to attain on small boards and more likely to be blocked).

I didn't put these in the main article because I don't know if anyone else has played Connect Four these ways, and I don't know if minor variations on games should be in primary articles. (--Kaze0010 03:48, 15 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Those are a nice addition to the article, in my opinion. --Anand 14:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO they should be mentioned in the article, in an subsection. But drop point 2, it's senseless. --ThG 15:12, 30 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I Agree that there should be a variations section to this article (I've played 3 & 4 from above and 1 sounds interesting). There is precident, try looking at card games such as Shithead or even established games such as poker, there are many variations mentioned without reference. To that end I found a very good extension to the standard game is double move connect4 (A common pratice in spicing up 2 player games when bored of the standard rules). The first player plays 1 piece, from then on all moves consist of 2 pieces (played as independant moves). Playing like this the games are much quicker and involve many more traps, 2 pieces on top of each other are a threat! --Martin lester 14:57, 10 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I have updated the main document to include a variations section. I don't think it breaks any of the wiki rules --Martin lester 16:24, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nerd Players Section

This section seriously needs to be revised or deleted; I would have removed it myself largely due to the somewhat questionable inclusion of an e-mail address. E Liquere 02:44, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Obviously needed deleted. It's gone now. -- Schaefer (Talk) 07:56, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

4x4x4

I've played this on a 4x4x4 grid, with downwards gravity. Is that a separate game or a variation? --Apoc2400 05:17, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Found it: Score Four. Added to Variations section. --Apoc2400 05:31, 1 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Tell me if the theory and strategy sections are clear.

I wrote the Theory and Strategy sections, they're clear to me but since they lack pictures, they might be difficult for readers to understand. Should I add pictures or is it clear enough?

Oh and i forgot an edit summary: I put those sections because I figured people who want to learn about Connect Four should be able to learn it from Wikipedia since one can learn just about every other topic. Other topics are very informative and now this one is too.

I changed the link titles, i doubt anyone will object.

I filled in the blank lines of the picture caption, and I changed "10 minutes" to "2-10" minutes because that's more realistic.Div0ckrehnee 06:07, 12 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]