Gonnect is an abstract strategy board game invented by João Pedro Neto in 2000. An abstract strategy game is a board or card game with Perfect information, no chance and (usually two players or teams A board game is a Game in which counters or pieces that are placed on removed from or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. The game is played with standard go equipment, and basically uses the same rules as go, however the goal of the game is to construct a group that connects any two opposite sides. Many games can be played with Go equipment: a supply of white and black stones and a board with 19×19 intersections other than Go and many more can be Gonnect belongs to the family of games commonly called connection games; its relatives include Hex and Havannah. Hex is a Board game played on a hexagonal grid, theoretically of any size and several possible shapes but traditionally as an 11x11 rhombus Havannah is an Abstract strategy Board game invented by Christian Freeling.
The game is usually played on a 13x13 or 15x15 board. All the rules of go apply, except passing is not allowed. A player loses if they have no legal moves. The pie rule is used to determine who goes first. The pie rule, sometimes referred to as the swap rule, is a meta-rule commonly used in Abstract strategy Board games like Hex and Havannah
Games between skilled players often end up temporarily deadlocked, since the square go board allows a "four corners" configuration where neither side can strongly connect. However, since players can't pass, they eventually must start filling in the internal liberties of their groups. The player who has made the smallest amount of territory usually loses first, so building more territory than your opponent is a means of forcing a connection and winning.
Thus, a Gonnect game between similarly skilled opponents generally unfolds in two stages:
- The board-filling stage where opponents race to connect sides until the position is deadlocked.
- The eye-filling stage where opponents must fill in their own eye space or destroy their opponents.
Although it requires similar tactics as Go, some players feel that Gonnect has a more interesting opening and endgame than Go.
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