Crossway 2007

Crossway is a played with a Go set. The board starts out empty. Each player takes possession of all of the stones of one color. Draws and ties cannot occur in Crossway.

Players take turns adding their stones to the board, one stone per turn, starting with Black. A player must never complete a 2x2 formation with two diagonally adjacent stones of each color.

Passing is not allowed, but, if you have no placements available, your turn is skipped.

To ensure fairness, White will have the option, on their first turn only, to swap sides with Black instead of making a regular move.

Object of the gameFor White to win, White must form a contiguous sequence of white stones connecting the West edge to the East edge of the board. Each stone in the sequence must be connected to neighboring stones in the sequence via horizontal, vertical, or diagonal adjacencies. Likewise for Black and the North and South edges. A corner is considered to be part of both adjoining edges.