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ProfessorKevinBuzzard

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Mathematics

Professor of Pure Mathematics
 
 
 
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660Huxley BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Buzzard:2014,
author = {Buzzard, K and Ciere, M},
journal = {Integers: electronic journal of combinatorial number theory},
title = {Playing simple loony dots and boxes endgames optimally},
url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2156v2},
volume = {14},
year = {2014}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - We explain a highly efficient algorithm for playing the simplest type of dotsand boxes endgame optimally (by which we mean "in such a way so as to maximisethe number of boxes that you take"). The algorithm is sufficiently simple thatit can be learnt and used in over-the-board games by humans. The types ofendgames we solve come up commonly in practice in well-played games on a 5x5board and were in fact developed by the authors in order to improve theirover-the-board play.
AU  - Buzzard,K
AU  - Ciere,M
PY  - 2014///
SN  - 1553-1732
TI  - Playing simple loony dots and boxes endgames optimally
T2  - Integers: electronic journal of combinatorial number theory
UR  - http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2156v2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/31035
VL  - 14
ER  -
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