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- From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Gale's Game
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.120351.19368@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Keywords: Chomp
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- References: <By09KA.2nJ@techbook.com> <SUMMERS.92Nov20133840@sanctum.cs.utah.edu> <MJD.92Nov20181855@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 12:03:51 GMT
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- In article <MJD.92Nov20181855@saul.cis.upenn.edu>, mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu
- ("[*] Jasper Titus") writes:
- |>
- |> No. The rules of the game are exactly as follows: (I changed your
- |> numbering because it was bizarre)
- |>
- |> 1. Choose integers M and N to be the size of your board.
- |>
- |> 2. A legal move is a choice of integers (p, q), with 1<=p<=M
- |> and 1<=q<=N, and such that there's no previous move (x, y)
- |> with (x<=p and y<=q).
- |>
- |> 3. If you play (1, 1), you lose.
-
- Isn't this the game that is called Chomp in Winning Ways? The strategy-stealing
- argument that the first player must have a win on a rectangular board (larger
- than 1x1), posted in <DUBACH1.92Nov20223420@husc10.harvard.edu> by Joev Dubach,
- is given there.
-
- Chris Thompson
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