View source for Edge templates everybody should know

In all the diagrams, Red is the vertical player and wants to connect her stone or stones to the bottom. Unshaded cells are part of the [[carrier]] of each template and must be empty for the template to be valid. Shaded cells are not part of the template and can be occupied by Blue.

What players "should" know if of course a bit subjective. The more templates you know, the better. But the ones shown on this page are quite common and are a good start.

== Third row edge templates with one stone ==
<hexboard size="3x4"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(c1,a3,d3,d1)"
  contents="R c1"
  /> <hexboard size="3x5"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(c1,a3,e3,e1)"
  contents="R d1 S c3"
  />

== Fourth row edge templates with one stone ==
<hexboard size="4x7"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(e1,c2,a4,g4,g2,f1)"
  contents="R e1"
  /> <hexboard size="4x8"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(e1,c2,a4,h4,h2,g1)"
  contents="R f1 S e3"
  />

== Third row edge templates with two stones ==
<hexboard size="3x3"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="-a1"
  contents="R b1 c1"
  /> <hexboard size="3x3"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(c1,a3,c3)"
  contents="R c1 a3"
  />

== Fourth row edge templates with two stones ==
<hexboard size="4x4"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(c1,b2,a4,d4,d1)"
  contents="R c1 d1"
  /> <hexboard size="4x4"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(d1,a4,d4)"
  contents="R d1 b3"
  />

== Fifth row edge templates with two stones ==
<hexboard size="5x7"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(e1,a5,g5,g3,f1)"
  contents="R e1 f1"
  /> <hexboard size="5x6"
  float="inline"
  coords="none"
  edges="bottom"
  visible="area(e1,a5,f5,f1)"
  contents="R e1 d2"
  />

== See also ==
* [[Edge templates with one stone]]
* [[Edge templates with two adjacent pieces]]
* [[Fourth row edge templates]]
* [[Fifth row edge templates]]

[[Category: Edge templates]]
[[Category: Basic Strategy]]
[[Category: Intermediate Strategy]]