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CombinatorialGames.Game.Specific.Domineering

Domineering as a combinatorial game. #

We define the game of Domineering, played on a chessboard of arbitrary shape (possibly even disconnected). Left moves by placing a domino vertically, while Right moves by placing a domino horizontally.

This is only a fragment of a full development; in order to successfully analyse positions we would need some more theorems. Most importantly, we need a general statement that allows us to discard irrelevant moves. Specifically to domineering, we need the fact that disjoint parts of the chessboard give sums of games.

A Domineering board is an arbitrary finite subset of ℤ × ℤ.

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    Left can play anywhere that a square and the square below it are open.

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      Right can play anywhere that a square and the square to the left are open.

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        After Left moves, two vertically adjacent squares are removed from the Domineering.

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          After Left moves, two horizontally adjacent squares are removed from the Domineering.

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            Left can move from b to a when there exists some m ∈ left b with a = b.moveLeft m.

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              Right can move from b to a when there exists some m ∈ right b with a = b.moveRight m.

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