ZURDI@SU-SCORE.ARPA (Ilan Vardi) (07/01/86)
[Forwarded from the Stanford bboard by Laws@SRI-AI.]
The first meeting of the games seminar was quite a success
with more than 20 people showing up.I'm hoping this will go on,
so I've decided to lure people with FOOD to compete with various
departmental teas.
The subject this time around will be partizan games, which
are games where opponents have different colours and have
different moves available to them e.g. Go, chess etc.
For people who weren't around last time the subject was
IMPARTIAL games where both layers have the same alternatives.
I showed that all those games can be reduced to one game called
NIM which has a simple strategy explanable in five minutes.
If you want to read up about thursday's talk, just pick up
the copy of Knuth's "Surreal Numbers" that's on reserve at the
Math Library.
Remember that this meeting is at
3:00 p.m. room 381 T Math Department.
Which is a CHANGE OF TIME from last week at 2:15 p.m..
If you have any comments, or want to get directly on a mailing
list, just mail your answer here at zurdi@score.
Have a nice day!
Ilan Vardi