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    Combinatorial game theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that typically studies sequential games with perfect information...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, a branch of mathematics, a hot game is one in which each player can improve their position by making the next move. By contrast...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, cooling, heating, and overheating are operations on hot games to make them more amenable to the traditional methods of the...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, a game is partisan (sometimes partizan) if it is not impartial. That is, some moves are available to one player and not...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, star, written as ∗ or ∗1, is the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game...
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  • Combinatorial game theory measures game complexity in several ways: State-space complexity (the number of legal game positions from the initial position)...
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    function contains only terms whose exponent is an odd number. In combinatorial game theory, an evil number is a number that has an even number of 1's in...
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  • was combinatorial game theory. Their books in this area included Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point (1994), The Dots and Boxes Game: Sophisticated...
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  • printf(" : %d\n", j); z[j++] = i; } } } The theory of lexicographic codes is closely connected to combinatorial game theory. In particular, the codewords in a...
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  • of Mancala are relatively basic, the game can be rigorously analyzed through the lens of combinatorial game theory.[citation needed] Mathematical games...
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  • codes and the Thue-Morse-Hedlund sequence". Journal of Combinatorial Mathematics and Combinatorial Computing. 11. Naval Postgraduate School, Department...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, the zero game is the game where neither player has any legal options. Therefore, under the normal play convention, the first...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, a branch of mathematics, a loopy game is one in which a previous state is reachable from descendent options. By contrast...
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  • element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory or computer assistance. A two-player game can be solved on several levels: Prove...
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  • the theory of repeated games. One of the central theorems in this theory, the folk theorem, relies on the minimax values. In combinatorial game theory, there...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, an impartial game is a game in which the allowable moves depend only on the position and not on which of the two players...
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  • Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays (category Combinatorial game theory)
    volume introduces combinatorial game theory and its foundation in the surreal numbers; partizan and impartial games; Sprague–Grundy theory and misère games...
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  • In mathematics, a combinatorial explosion is the rapid growth of the complexity of a problem due to the way its combinatorics depends on input, constraints...
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  • Combinatorial Games: Tic-Tac-Toe Theory is a monograph on the mathematics of tic-tac-toe and other positional games, written by József Beck. It was published...
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    In the context of combinatorial game theory, a game tree is a graph representing all possible game states within a sequential game that has perfect information...
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  • Mathematics portal Combinatorial biology Combinatorial chemistry Combinatorial data analysis Combinatorial game theory Combinatorial group theory Discrete mathematics...
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  • In combinatorial game theory, a fuzzy game is a game which is incomparable with the zero game: it is not greater than 0, which would be a win for Left;...
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  • Games, Puzzles, and Computation (category Combinatorial game theory)
    computational complexity theory of solving logic puzzles and making optimal decisions in two-player and multi-player combinatorial games. Its focus is on...
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    ko rules), Quixo, and checkers are EXPTIME-complete. Game complexity Combinatorial game theory Reisch, Stefan (1981), "Hex ist PSPACE-vollständig", Acta...
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    (non-well-founded) sets in this way. Any combinatorial game, can be associated with a rooted directed graph whose vertices are game positions, whose edges are moves...
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    turns tapping one hand against another. Chopsticks is an example of a combinatorial game, and is solved in the sense that with perfect play, an optimal strategy...
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  • Hearn, Robert (2001). "Playing Games with Algorithms: Algorithmic Combinatorial Game Theory". arXiv:cs/0106019v2. Winning Ways: 2 [1] Col and Snort games...
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  • that involve removing tokens (game pieces or stones) from heaps of tokens. They have been studied in combinatorial game theory as a generalization of Nim...
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  • Introduction to Combinatorial Game Theory, A K Peters Ltd, pp. 3–4, ISBN 978-1-56881-277-9 Beck, József (2008). Combinatorial Games: Tic-Tac-Toe Theory. Cambridge...
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    Hackenbush (category Combinatorial game theory)
    e., gets erased). According to the normal play convention of combinatorial game theory, the first player who is unable to move loses. Hackenbush boards...
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