The Dots and Boxes Game
Sophisticated Child's Play
1st Edition
Published on 18. July 2000
131 pages
978-1-4822-0849-8 (ISBN)
Description
The game of Dots-and-Boxes, the popular game in which two players take turns connecting an array of dots to form squares, or boxes has long been considered merely a child's game. In this book, however, the author reveals the surprising complexity of the game, along with advanced strategies that will allow the reader to win at any level of gamepla
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Natick
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4822-0849-8 (9781482208498)
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Content
Preface, 1. Dots-and-Boxes-An Introduction, 2. Strings-and-Coins, 3. Elementary Chain Counting Problems, 4. Advanced Chain Counting, 5. Advanced Chain Counting Problems, 6. Nimber Values for Nimstring Graphs, 7. Elementary Problems with Nimbers, 8. More about Nimstring, Arrays, Mutations, Vines, etc, 9. Advanced Nimstring Problems, 10. Playing Dots-and-Boxes with Very Close Scores, 11. Dots-and-Boxes Problems with Close Scores, 12. Unsolved Problems, Bibliography, Index
