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Your Move: Logic, Math and Word Puzzles for Enthusiasts

David L. Silverman
Publisher: 
Dover Publications
Publication Date: 
1991
Number of Pages: 
224
Format: 
Paperback
Price: 
8.95
ISBN: 
0486267318
Category: 
General
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The Basic Library List Committee recommends this book for acquisition by undergraduate mathematics libraries.

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Introduction
  Preface
  Part I Potpourri I
    1. Monochrome
    2. Seven No Trump
    3. Woolworth
    4. Yes or No?
    5. King versus Knight
    6. Nothing Ventured
    7. Protecting Your Advantage
    8. Open Poker
    9. The Beginning and the End
    10. The Racks
    Bridge
    11. Green Light
    12. Trump Management
    13. The Message
    14. Those Diamonds
    Chess and Variations
    15. Hors de Combat
    16. Patience Rewarded
    17. Minichess
    18. Giveaway Chess
    19. Don't Mate in One!
    20. Kriegspiel
    Checkers and Variations
    21. Greek Gifts
    22. The Stroke
    23. Giveaway Checkers
    24. The Fox and the Geese
    Tic-tac-toe and Variations
    25. Toe-tac-tic
    26. Quick-tac-toe
    27. 3x3x3 Tic-tac-toe
    28. 4x4x4 Tic-tac-toe
    29. Tour de Force
    Other Board Games
    30. Hex
    31. Minihex
    32. Go
    33. Go-Moku
    34. Connecto
    35. Fortress
    Map Games
    36. Bichrome
    37. Trichrome
    38. Contact
    39. Contact Misere
    Problems in Elementary Game Theory
    40. Five or One
    41. High Stakes
    42. Sealed Bids
    43. More or Less
    44. A Three-Man Game
    Word Games
    45. Ghost
    46. Geography
    47. Scrabble
    48. Fish Soup
    Countdown and Countup Games
    49. Triskidekaphilia
    50. Second Player Option
    51. Triskidekaphilia Misere
    52. Restricted Triskidekaphilia
    53. Odd Total
    54. Aliquot
    55. Nim
    56. Tsyanshidzi
    57. Lasker's Nim
    58. Shannon's Nim
    59. Kayles
    60. Grundy's Game
    61. Subtract-a-Square
    62. The Last Prime
    63. Two-Hand Version of the Last Prime
    64. Hybrid
    65. Option
    "Life Games"
    66. Cave Canem
    67. Blind Curve
    68. Runaway
    69. Danger Acute
    Potpourri II
    70. The Man on First
    71. The Pressure Cooker
    72. Fifteen
    73. Ten or Twenty
    74. Russian Roulette
    75. Rencontre
    76. "Plan Your Moves, Kid!"
    77. A War Game
    78. The Spider and the Fly
    79. The Truel
    80. Improving the Odds
  Part II Unsolved Games
    81. Regulus
    82. Quadraphage
    83. Loaded Dice
    84. Stymie
    85. Tripolemos
    86. "The "Dating Game"
    87. Peek-a-Boo
    88. Grid
    89. Crapjack
    90. Continuous Nim
    91. Sabazius
    92. Prime Ghost
    93. Kriegspiel Tic-tac-toe
    94. Escalation
    95. Chessboard Trichrome
    96. Chessboard Contact
    97. Buy or Fold
    98. Minipoker
    99. Semi-Blind Poker
    100. Chess Variations
      A. Presto Chess
      B. No Threats
      C. Semi-Kriegspiel
  About the Author
  Notes and Sources
  Bibliography