Talk:Impartial game

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Ought that to be "partisan game", or is this an unusual usage? --Brion 01:53 Sep 2, 2002 (PDT)

The sentence

Go is also not impartial, although it is closer than chess, because of the "no suicides" rule

is misleading. Go, even without a no-suicide rule, fails to be impartial for the same reason as chess does, because one player places black stones and the other white. I've rewritten the prior sentence to include both games. 75.36.182.157 02:51, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] More Games

The list of impartial games should be longer. 70.111.224.85 13:17, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

Dude, it's Wikipedia. Find some, and put them in the list. --Einstein9073 20:06, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

I've extended the list from 2 to 5. 75.36.182.157 03:09, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Diplomacy

Most likely someone misunderstood what impartial game means, thought it meant that all sides are equally balanced, and stuck the claim about Diplomacy there. I have not played diplomacy, but if it has symmetrical payoffs for any given position, it's a very different game than I thought! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.238.44.38 (talk) 09:40, 1 November 2007 (UTC)