Twixt
Categories: Board Games New Games Events
About
Twixt is a game requiring large amounts of concentration as the game can be decided by the first move. The aim of the game is to connect two opposite sides of a scuare board using a knight’s jump in chess (2 x 1) or (1 x 2). This is one of the games that even the fastest of game players will use their time. This is not one for the faint-hearted with it affectionately being known as a headache game.
Draws are possible but very rare with sometimes the game being agreed as over by the third move! Despite all of the hard work needed to play it is still a rewarding game that we expect to be regarded as a classic game in the future.
Rules
Twixt has a special rule to compensate for the huge advantage for the first player. That rule is that once the first player has played a peg then the second player can chose to change sides where the played peg becomes theirs or they can play on as normal. Each player can place a peg anywhere in the centre of the board or their home edge. Then the player can join his pegs with a wall if they are connected by a Knight's jump in Chess (that is the diagonal of a 2x1 or 1x2 rectangle). This cannot cross any wall that is already on the board, but a player can remove any number of their own walls in their turn. The winner is the player that manages to connect their opposite homesides.
You can find out about opportunities to play Twixt live at Timetable. Please report any external links that have broken or have changed to contain inappropriate material. More information about how tournament play works can be found in Using Clocks and MSO Rules.
MSO Twixt Champions
| Year | Name | Country | Flag | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Bharat | England |  |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2006 | David Bush | USA |  |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2005 | David Bush | USA | |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2004 | Carl Ragnarsson | Sweden |  |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2003 | Klaus Hussmanns | Germany |  |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2002 | Peter Henke | Germany | |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2001 | Klaus Hussmanns | Germany | |
Olympiad Champion |
| 2000 | Klaus Hussmanns | Germany | |
Olympiad Champion |
| 1999 | Klaus Hussmanns | Germany | |
World Champion |
| 1998 | Klaus Hussmanns | Germany | |
World Champion |
| 1997 | Alexander Ranolph | USA | |
Olympiad Champion |
Full results and other winners can be found in Results.
MSO Twixt Ranked Players:
GRANDMASTER:
David Bush
Klaus Hussmanns
INTERNATIONAL MASTER:
Bharat
Gert Schnider
Peter Henke
CANDIDATE MASTER:
George Hassabis
Hartmut Thordsen
Jan Stastna
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twixt
http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/twixt.html