The combinatorial game theory of well-tempered scoring games

DOI10.1007/S00182-013-0386-6MaRDI QIDQ2453496zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Will Johnson

Publication date 6 June 2014

Published in International Journal of Game Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3610

zbMATH Keywords

combinatorial gamesMilnor gamesscoring games

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial games (91A46)

Abstract: We consider the class of "well-tempered" integer-valued scoring games, which have the property that the parity of the length of the game is independent of the line of play. We consider disjunctive sums of these games, and develop a theory for them analogous to the standard theory of disjunctive sums of normal-play partizan games. We show that the monoid of well-tempered scoring games modulo indistinguishability is cancellative but not a group, and we describe its structure in terms of the group of normal-play partizan games. We also classify Boolean-valued well-tempered scoring games, showing that there are exactly seventy, up to equivalence.

Recommendations

• Games with guaranteed scores and waiting moves
• Scoring games: the state of play
• The linking-unlinking game
• Guaranteed scoring games
• Scoring play combinatorial games
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5133448
• Games of no chance 5. Papers of the BIRS workshop on combinatorial game theory, Banff, Canada, January 2011
• Playing with Knots
• Some new combinatorial games
• \(N\)-player partizan games

Cites work

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5734580 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1568491 (Why is no real title available?)
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3078996 (Why is no real title available?)
• A metric for positional games
• A midsummer knot's dream
• Advances in losing
• Mean play of sums of positional games
• Winning ways for your mathematical plays. Vol. 1.

Cited in

(11)

• Golden games
• Scoring play combinatorial games
• Discrete Richman-bidding scoring games
• Temperatures of games and coupons
• Guaranteed scoring games
• On the complexity and topology of scoring games: of pirates and treasure
• Scoring games: the state of play
• Two-player tower of Hanoi
• Building Nim
• Canonical forms of uptimals
• Games with guaranteed scores and waiting moves

This page was built for publication: The combinatorial game theory of well-tempered scoring games

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2453496)