Games of no chance 4 /

A mathematical explanation of misere games, in which losing is the goal.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Nowakowski, Richard J. (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Series:Mathematical Sciences Research Institute publications ; 63.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Peeking at partizan misère quotients / Meghan R. Allen
  • A survey about solitaire clobber / Laurent Beaudou, Eric Duchene and Sylvain Gravier
  • Monte-Carlo approximation of temperature / Tristan Cazenave
  • Retrograde analysis of woodpush / Tristan Cazenave and Richard J. Nowakowski
  • Narrow misère dots-and-boxes / Sebastien Collette, Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine and Stefan Langerman
  • Toppling conjectures / Alex Fink, Richard J. Nowakowski, Aaron Siegel and David Wolfe
  • Harnessing the unwieldy MEX function / Aviezri Fraenkel and Udi Peled
  • The rat game and the mouse game / Aviezri Fraenkel
  • A ruler regularity in hexadecimal games / J.P. Grossman and Richard J. Nowakowski
  • A handicap strategy for hex / Philip Henderson and Ryan Hayward
  • Restrictions of m-wythoff nim and p-complementary Beatty sequences / Urban Larsson
  • Computer analysis of sprouts with nimbers / Julien Lemoine and Simon Viennot
  • Navigating the MAZE / Neil McKay, Richard J. Nowakowski and Angela Siegel
  • Evaluating territories of Go positions with capturing races / Teigo Nakamura
  • Artificial intelligence for bidding Hex / Sam Payne and Elina Robeva
  • Nimbers in partizan games / Carlos Pereira Dos Santos and Jorge Nuno Silva
  • Misère canonical forms of partizan games / Aaron Siegel
  • The structure and classification of misère quotients / Aaron Siegel
  • An algorithm for computing indistinguishability quotients in misére impartial combinatorial games / Mike Weimerskirch
  • Unsolved problems in combinatorial games / Richard J. Nowakowski
  • Combinatorial games : selected short bibliography with a succinct gourmet introduction / Aviezri Fraenkel and Richard J. Nowakowski.