lol, yes your right its not arrogance, its just my silly English humour, as Stefan knows, sorry! just wanted to see if anyone could give me some tips, Stefan? ;-)
My dearest friend Matt, wants either to get a discussion about the game or uses the famous English humour! His message sounds a bit arrogant, but I can tell you he is NOT, I am though, lol
Just play a lot, try to learn from your mistakes and not making them twice! (StackMaster knows what I mean, lol) Try to understand what certain positions are all about and what the key squares are........and don't miss force wins if they are there. Play not too aggressive when you are playing black! Defend first and counter only when the time is right, but you can only learn by experience when it is that right time...) Do not replay the games of the best too much because if your opponent makes another move you just don't know what the position is about and you'll probably lose..... Making notes on the games is recommendable! Put your fisrt piece always on the same place eg e1!
I did all this and it ended up so far with 32 tourney wins at www. itsyourturn.com, which noone ever achieved and 2400+ points here but that doesn't say that much I think.......
1) Look at old games - take a look at the top players, study some of their past games - a lot of time, people will "fall" into the same trap over and over.
2) Whenever it is your turn - look at where the other person put their piece. STUDY IT, and ask youself "Why did they put that there" - most of the time you can find what they are planning, and go from there.
3) Use your in-game notes to yourself - If I have a plan, or something - I always list it in the notes for myself to read - like "watch out for B3" - or a step by step plan like "(me B3)(him B4) (me E3) - win 2 ways".
Without looking at the game, i will assume that the last move filled the bottom row, making it dissappear and everything else drop down. The blue square is to indicate the last move was in that column. It is very possible to have several moves in the same square (in the bottom row only) because of this rule. Hope that helps!
Kevin
I'm playing this game with Dawn and on the game notations it has both of us moving on B1 It showed up as an empty blue square on my turn. Tried to play on top of it and couldn't. It let me move on B1 also
When the board fills up, is the game a draw, or is it a win for the first player? If it is a draw, the second player can simply mirror what the first player does (same thing on other side of board) and never get Four in a row (only the first player can). If it is a win for the first player, it should be specified in the rules. Thanks!