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Streaming-video hour-long special seminar held at MSRI on September 13, 1999 describes the mathematics behind winning strategies.
http://www.msri.org/activities/events/9900/Berlekamp/
Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.
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Anyone have any references to studies of winning strategies, expected run times and so on Perhaps most important: any clues how one can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory when playing against a child It's too close to the...Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time.
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Katherine Scott at MSRI Loony dots and boxes endgame Loony dots and boxes endgame...Analysis program and results.
http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~dwilson/boxes/
A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.
http://www.geocities.com/alpine_rick_2000