Combinatorial Game Theory
who wins, and by how much
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Dissociation — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. A hot position, split into its mean and what is left. Each row is a position cooled by exactly its own temperature — the tax at which it stops being worth moving in. The result is the mean value with something small still attached, and the last column is that something, obtained by subtracting the mean from the cooled game rather than by inspection.

    A number and a fight

    Charge a position exactly what it is worth fighting over and the fight disappears, leaving the mean value — with something still attached to it. Over all 1,122 hot values born by day three the residue is smaller than every positive number, it is a star in 942 of them, and it is never nothing. So a hot game is its mean plus a fight plus a remainder that no number reports, and the remainder is what decides close games.

    part 1 · temperature

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