Narrow Misère Dots-and-Boxes
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چکیده
We study misère Dots-and-Boxes, where the goal is to minimize score, for narrow boards. In particular, we characterize the winner for 1× n boards with an explicit winning strategy for the first player with a score of b(n − 1)/3c. We also give preliminary results for 2 × n and for Swedish 1× n (where the boundary is initially drawn).
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