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      <p ns="0" title="Group" snippet="...e [[player]]. These stones are [[virtual connection|virtually connected]], &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; that they cannot be disconnected by the opponent unless the player allows i&#10;" size="1174" wordcount="190" timestamp="2024-02-14T23:41:36Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Smart Game Format" snippet=" such as \n have no special &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;; this is just another way to &#10;" size="15941" wordcount="2720" timestamp="2025-08-12T03:30:22Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Parallelogram boards" snippet="...uses the opposite convention. To avoid confusion, it&#039;s best to clarify the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; when discussing Hex with non-square dimensions.&#10;" size="7115" wordcount="974" timestamp="2023-01-25T14:39:59Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="GTP" snippet="! &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt;&#10;! &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;Meaning&lt;/span&gt;&#10;" size="6305" wordcount="845" timestamp="2024-10-24T16:14:19Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Elo rating" snippet="...100 points higher than that of player Y&amp;quot; theoretically has a well-defined &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; (given the assumption on odds, above).&#10;" size="8494" wordcount="1387" timestamp="2024-10-03T00:44:17Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Time tesuji" snippet="...s.xmp.net/?TimeTesuji borrowed from the game of Go], where it has the same &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt;.&#10;" size="961" wordcount="170" timestamp="2022-08-28T23:32:41Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Strategic advice from KataHex" snippet="...t-cut&#039;&#039; through opponent stones, and a bad idea to &#039;&#039;adjacent allow-cut&#039;&#039; (&lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; it&#039;s a bad idea to play a move that allows your opponent to adjacent-cut th&#10;...se patterns, we will discuss the strength of Red&#039;s move 1 &#039;&#039;in a vacuum&#039;&#039;, &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; in the absence of nearby stones, like near the middle of an empty board on &#10;" size="38891" wordcount="6683" timestamp="2025-12-13T14:25:24Z" />
      <p ns="0" title="Inferiority" snippet="The term &amp;quot;strongly reversed&amp;quot;, with the &lt;span class=&#039;searchmatch&#039;&gt;meaning&lt;/span&gt; given here, appears in the source code of [[MoHex]]. Example 1 is one of Mo&#10;" size="4363" wordcount="767" timestamp="2024-04-26T02:05:39Z" />
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