Combinatorial Game Theory Combinatorial Game Theory studies strategies and mathematics of two-player games of perfect knowledge such as chess or go (but often either concentrating instead on simpler games such as nim, or solving endgames and other special cases). An important distinction between this subject and classical game theory (a branch of economics) is that game players are assumed to ...

GAMESMAN A Finite, Two-Person, Perfect-Information Game Generator In certain kinds of positions, the computer sees so deeply that it plays like God. -- Gary Kasparov, after losing his first of six chess games to IBM's Deep Blue. Deep Blue's computational power was not enough to overcome my intuitive appreciation of where the pieces should go... -- Gary Kasparov, after winning the second game ...