dots and boxes

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• - A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.
  
• - A variation of Dots and Boxes that can be played on a checkerboard or on paper.
  
• - Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time.
  
• - Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board.
  
• - Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.
  
• - Entry with rules, basic strategy, and references.
  
• - Streaming-video hour-long special seminar held at MSRI on September 13, 1999 describes the mathematics behind winning strategies.
  
• - Analysis program and results.