Games of No Chance 4
Edited by Richard J. Nowakowski
The volume contains the first comprehensive explorations of
misère games. It includes a tutorial for the very successful approach to analyzing
misère impartial games and the first attempt at using it for misère partisan games.
It also includes an updated version of Unsolved Problems in Combinatorial Game Theory and
the Combinatorial Games Bibliography. The well-known normal-play games of Hex and Go are featured
as well as new games: Toppling Dominoes has already spawned several papers and graduate theses;
Maze extends the analysis of option-closed games; the question of
Nim-dimension is introduced and new regularities are seen in take-