Abstract
In this chapter we are going to explore games that all have certain similarities:
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They are contests between two players.
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They terminate after a finite number of moves.
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There are no elements of chance involved (no dice are used or cards shuffled) . The result is that the game is determined solely by the players’ decisions.
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Both players can freely observe each other’s moves and evaluate the changes that these make in the game.
Nowhere has man exhibited more ingenuity than in his games.
Leibnitz
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Baumann, R. (1982). Games of Strategy. In: Hansen, T.S., Kahn, D. (eds) BASIC Game Plans. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3918-3_6
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