Who Wins Misère Hex?

Hex . The onlydifference between normal Hex and Mis`ere Hex is that the outcome of the game is reversed:White wins if there is a black chain from left to right, and Black wins if there is a whitechain from top to bottom.Contrary to one's intuition, it is not the case that the second player can always win atMis`ere Hex.1See his Mathematical Games column in Scientific American for July 1957, October 1957, July 1975 andDecember 1975, or his first book of mathematical puzzles and...