NEVO

Copyright (c) 1991 Michael Vonderheid

This game is played on an empty 7x12 square board with the following setup:

MOVE - On each turn, each player moves a stone to an adjacent (orthogonal or diagonal) empty cell.  All stones of the same color must be connected. If a set of stones is disconnected, all stones except those belonging to the bigger sub-group are removed.  A move that splits the group into two equal sized sub-groups is forbidden. For each stone in the 5th row, the player has 2 points. For each stone in the 6th row, 5 points and for each stone on the last row, 8 points. GOAL - Wins the player that achieves a position worth of 16 points.

An example In this position, White has 15 points (the marked stones) and Black has 9 points. Each player needs 4 moves (the colored cells) to reach the required points. So, the next player to move wins. Notice that stone at c5 cannot move, because of d4-c5.