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References

7. References

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Conway, J., All games bright and beautiful, Amer. Math. Monthly 84 (1977) 417-434.

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Conway, J., On Numbers and Games, Second edition, A. K. Peters, Natick, 2000.

Conway, J. and R. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996.

Fraenkel, A., Recreation and depth in combinatorial games, in R. Guy and R. Woodrow, (ed.), The Lighter Side of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, 1994, p. 159-173.

Fraenkel, A., Combinatorial games: selected bibliography with a succinct gourmet introduction, in R. Nowakowski, (ed)., Games of No Chance, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 1996, p. 493-537.

Gale, D., Tracking the Automatic Ant, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998.

Gardner, M., Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements, W.H. Freeman, New York, 1983. (Chapters 8, 11, 14, and 18.)

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Guy, R. Fair Game, COMAP, Arlington, 1989.

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Guy, R., (ed.), Combinatorial Games, Volume 43, Proceedings of Symposia in Applied Mathematics, American Mathematical Society, Providence, 1991.

Guy, R. and R. Woodrow, (ed.), The Lighter Side of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, 1994.

Harary, F., Achievement and avoidance games for graphs, Ann. Discrete Math. 13 (1982) 111-120.

Harary, F. and K. Plochinski, On degree achievement and avoidance games for graphs, Mathematics Magazine 60 (1987) 316-321.

Knuth, D., Surreal numbers, Addison-Wesley, Reading, 1974.

Nowakowski, R., (ed.), Games of No Chance, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 1996.

Nowakowski, R., (ed.), More Games of No Chance, Cambridge U. Press, New York, 2003.

Propp, J., A new take-away game, in R. Guy and R. Woodrow, (ed.), The Lighter Side of Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America, Washington, 1994, p. 212- 221.

Sibert, W. and J. Conway, Mathematical kayles, Internat. J. Game Theory, 20 (1992) 237-246.

Silverman, D., Your Move, McGraw Hill, New York, 1971.

Sprague, R, Über mathematische Kampfspiele, Tôhoku Math. J., 41 (1935-1936) 438-444.

Note 1: Many examples of combinatorial games can be found in the books and articles of Martin Gardner.

Note 2: Those who can access JSTOR can find some of the papers mentioned above there.