Domineering as a combinatorial game. #
We define the game of Domineering, played on a chessboard of arbitrary shape (possibly even disconnected). Left moves by placing a domino vertically, while Right moves by placing a domino horizontally.
This is only a fragment of a full development; in order to successfully analyse positions we would need some more theorems. Most importantly, we need a general statement that allows us to discard irrelevant moves. Specifically to domineering, we need the fact that disjoint parts of the chessboard give sums of games.
A Domineering board is an arbitrary finite subset of ℤ × ℤ
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The instance describing allowed moves on a Domineering board.
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Construct a pre-game from a Domineering board.
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All games of Domineering are short, because each move removes two squares.
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The Domineering board with two squares arranged vertically, in which Left has the only move.