More Games of No Chance

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Author: Richard J. Nowakowski

ISBN-10: 0521808324

ISBN-13: 9780521808323

Category: Game theory -> Congresses

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The latest mathematical and computational advances in Amazons, Chomp, Dot-and-Boxes, Go, Chess, Hex, and more.

PrefaceThe Big Picture1Idempotents Among Partisan Games3On the Lattice Structure of Finite Games25More Infinite Games31Alpha-Beta Pruning Under Partial Orders37The Abstract Structure of the Group of Games49The Old Classics59Higher Nimbers in Pawn Endgames on Large Chessboards61Restoring Fairness to Dukego79Go Thermography: The 4/21/98 Jiang-Rui Endgame89An Application of Mathematical Game Theory to Go Endgames: Some Width-Two-Entrance Rooms With and Without Kos107Go Endgames Are PSPACE-Hard125Global Threats in Combinatorial Games: A Computation Model with Applications to Chess Endgames137The Game of Hex: The Hierarchical Approach151Hypercube Tic-Tac-Toe167Transfinite Chomp183A Memory Efficient Retrograde Algorithm and Its Application to Chinese Chess Endgames213The New Classics229The 4G4G4G4G4 Problems and Solutions231Experiments in Computer Amazons243Exhaustive Search in Amazons261Two-Player Games on Cellular Automata279Who Wins Domineering on Rectangular Boards?307Forcing Your Opponent to Stay in Control of a Loony Dot-and-Boxes Endgame3171 x n Konane: A Summary of Results3311-Dimensional Peg Solitaire, and Duotaire341Phutball Endgames Are Hard351One-Dimensional Phutball361A Symmetric Strategy in Graph Avoidance Games369A Simple FSM-Based Proof of the Additive Periodicity of the Sprague-Grundy Function of Wythoff's Game383Puzzles and Life387The Complexity of Clickomania389Coin-Moving Puzzles405Searching for Spaceships433Surveys455Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory: Updated457Bibliography of Combinatorial Games: Updated475