I'm currently planning to write my August 17 blog post on values of Hackenbush games (including ones with infinite or infinitesimal value), in conjunction with the MOVES meeting taking place Aug. 2-4 (dedicated to Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy). In keeping with my goal of having something that readers of my blog can DO ("virtual manipulatives", if you like), I'd like to give them a way to play (finite!) Hackenbush against a perfect adversary. Ideally it should be available to everyone, not just those who own iPads. If no such thing currently exists, would any of you be willing to create it? Jim Propp On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Thane Plambeck <tplambeck@gmail.com> wrote:
yes, we (ie greg whitehead and i, acting as counterwavegames.com) made one.
it runs only on ipad
we dropped the 'c' from the name for copyright reasons, but here you go
thane
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 11:48 AM, James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Does anyone know of a browser applet or smartphone app that lets a human play Red-Blue Hackenbush against a computer?
One nice way to convince people that a certain Hackenbush position H has value 1/2 would to give them a chance to play the game consisting of m copies of H plus n copies of a game with value -1, for various values of m and n, sometimes playing Red and sometimes playing Blue.
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