Generalized Harary games
There are a number of positional games known on the infinite chessboard. One of the most studied is the 5-in-a-row, whose rules are almost identical to the ancient Japanese Go-Moku. Along this line Harary asked if a player can achieve a translated copy of a given polymino P when the two players alte...
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| Format: | Article |
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1997
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| Series: | Acta cybernetica
13 No. 1 |
| Kulcsszavak: | Számítástechnika, Kibernetika |
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| Online Access: | http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/12580 |
| Summary: | There are a number of positional games known on the infinite chessboard. One of the most studied is the 5-in-a-row, whose rules are almost identical to the ancient Japanese Go-Moku. Along this line Harary asked if a player can achieve a translated copy of a given polymino P when the two players alternately take the squares of the board. Here we pose his question for general subsets of the board, and give a condition under which a draw is possible. Since a drawing strategy corresponds to a good 2-coloration of the underlying hypergraph, our result can be viewed as a derandomization of the Lovász Local Lemma. |
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| Physical Description: | 77-83 |
| ISSN: | 0324-721X |