Talk:Domineering

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Could someone familiar with game theory translate the sentence:

As in most games, we as the mathematician are "rooting" for Left

Also, is there a standard of calling players "Right" and "Left", because it would be clearer to call them "Horizontal" and "Verticle"?

Thanks. — Reinyday, 02:09, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, there is a standard in combinatorial game theory of calling the players Left and Right. The sentence you quote means nothing at all except that there is a convention of assigning the game a positive number when Left is winning and a negative one when Right is winning.

The only problem I can foresee with changing the article to use "Vertical" and "Horizontal" for the players is that then it would be less clear in the notation {x|y} which value is for which player. —Blotwell 19:04, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Thanks! — Reinyday, 19:52, 20 July 2006 (UTC)