Games of No Chance

Edited by Richard Nowakowski
Contents and Downloadable Files

Preface
Richard Nowakowski
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Front matter for each part
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All Games Bright and Beautiful

The Angel Problem, pp. 3-12
John H. Conway
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Scenic Trails Ascending from Sea-Level Nim to Alpine Chess, pp. 13-42
Aviezri Fraenkel
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What is a Game?, pp. 43-60
Richard K. Guy
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Impartial Games, pp. 61-78
Richard K. Guy
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Championship-Level Play of Dots-and-Boxes, pp. 79-84
Julian West
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Championship-Level Play of Domineering, pp. 85-91
Julian West
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The Gamesman's Toolkit, pp. 93-98
David Wolfe
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Strides on Classical Ground

Solving Nine Men's Morris, pp. 101-113
Ralph Gasser
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Marion Tinsley: Human Perfection at Checkers?, pp. 115-118
Jonathan Schaeffer
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Solving the Game of Checkers, pp. 119-133
Jonathan Schaeffer and Robert Lake
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On Numbers and Endgames: Combinatorial Game Theory in Chess Endgames, pp. 135-150
Noam D. Elkies
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Multilinear Algebra and Chess Endgames, pp. 151-192
Lewis Stiller
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Using Similar Positions to Search Game Trees, pp. 193-202
Yasuhito Kawano
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Where Is the ``Thousand-Dollar Ko''?, pp. 203-226
Elwyn Berlekamp and Yonghoan Kim
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Eyespace Values in Go, pp. 227-257
Howard A. Landman
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Loopy Games and Go, pp. 259-272
David Moews
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Experiments in Computer Go Endgames, pp. 273
Martin Müller and Ralph Gasser
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Taming the Menagerie

Sowing Games, pp. 287-297
Jeff Erickson
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New Toads and Frogs Results, pp. 299-310
Jeff Erickson
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Xdom: A Graphical, X-Based Front-End for Domineering, pp. 311-313
Dan Garcia
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Infinitesimals and Coin-Sliding, pp. 315-327
David Moews
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Geography Played on Products of Directed Cycles, pp. 329-337
Richard J. Nowakowski and David G. Poole
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Pentominoes: A First Player Win, pp. 339-344
Hilarie K. Orman
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New Values for Top Entails, pp. 345-350
Julian West
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Take-Away Games, pp. 351-361
Michael Zieve
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New Theoretical Vistas

The Economist's View of Combinatorial Games, pp. 365-405
Elwyn Berlekamp
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Games with Infinitely Many Moves and Slightly Imperfect Information (Extended Abstract), pp. 407-408
David Blackwell
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The Reduced Canonical Form of a Game, pp. 409-416
Dan Calistrate
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Error-Correcting Codes Derived from Combinatorial Games, pp. 417-431
Aviezri Fraenkel
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Tutoring Strategies in Game-Tree Search (Extended Abstract), pp. 433-435
Hiroyuki Iida, Yoshiyuki Kotani, and Jos W. H. M. Uiterwijk
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About David Richman, p. 437
James G. Propp
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Richman Games, pp. 439-449
Andrew J. Lazarus, Daniel E. Loeb, James G. Propp, and Daniel Ullman
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Stable Winning Coalitions, pp. 451-471
Daniel E. Loeb
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Coda

Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Games, pp. 475-491
Richard K. Guy
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Combinatorial Games: Selected Bibliography with a Succinct Gourmet Introduction, pp. 493-537
Aviezri Fraenkel
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