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No chance backgammon

Posted By: Jason Lee
Date: Saturday, 25 September 2010, at 1:43 p.m.

In Response To: No chance backgammon (Tom Keith)

From http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/cgt/: "Combinatorial Game Theory studies strategies and mathematics of two-player games of perfect knowledge such as chess or go ..."

Although Eppstein undoubtedly knows full well, chess and go are not themselves combinatorial games... but at least the theory of CGT can be used to say something very meaningful about them. Go in particular is close to being a combinatorial game -- in fact, CGT was discovered in a desire to understand something about go endgames.

JLee

Messages In This Thread

• No chance backgammon
  mtuhtan -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 6:20 p.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    Leonardo Jerkovic -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 7:05 p.m.
    • No chance backgammon
      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 9:02 p.m.
      • No chance backgammon
        Matt Cohn-Geier -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 9:04 p.m.
        • No chance backgammon
          John Stryker -- Friday, 24 September 2010, at 12:46 a.m.
      • No chance backgammon
        Jakob Garal -- Friday, 24 September 2010, at 9:59 p.m.
        • No chance backgammon
          Bob Koca -- Friday, 24 September 2010, at 11:00 p.m.
          • No chance backgammon
            Tom Keith -- Saturday, 25 September 2010, at 1:31 p.m.
            • No chance backgammon
              Jason Lee -- Saturday, 25 September 2010, at 1:43 p.m.
        • No chance backgammon
          Daniel Murphy -- Saturday, 25 September 2010, at 5:12 a.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    Bob Koca -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 7:14 p.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    Bob Koca -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 7:20 p.m.
    • No chance backgammon
      Bob Koca -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 7:40 p.m.
      • No chance backgammon
        mtuhtan -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 9:02 p.m.
    • Dice chess
      Timothy Chow -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 9:10 p.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 8:50 p.m.
    • No chance backgammon
      mtuhtan -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 8:57 p.m.
      • Thanks! *NM*
        Nack Ballard -- Thursday, 23 September 2010, at 10:26 p.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    mtuhtan -- Sunday, 26 September 2010, at 8:33 a.m.
  • No chance backgammon
    Christian Plenz -- Thursday, 30 September 2010, at 10:10 p.m.
    • No chance backgammon
      mtuhtan -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 11:24 a.m.
      • No chance backgammon
        Christian Plenz -- Friday, 1 October 2010, at 6:07 p.m.