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When waiting moves you in scoring combinatorial games

Combinatorics 2015-05-11 v1

Abstract

Combinatorial Scoring games, with the property `extra pass moves for a player does no harm', are characterized. The characterization involves an order embedding of Conway's Normal-play games. Also, we give a theorem for comparing games with scores (numbers) which extends Ettinger's work on dicot Scoring games.

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@article{arxiv.1505.01907,
  title  = {When waiting moves you in scoring combinatorial games},
  author = {Urban Larsson and Richard J. Nowakowski and Carlos P. Santos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.01907},
  year   = {2015}
}

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19 pages, 5 figures

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