Two Dimensional Subtraction -- Transfer Games
Abstract
We generalize the results and conjectures of Tamás Lengyel, showing that the nim-values of a large class of two-dimensional subtraction-transfer games are periodic. These are impartial, normal-play games with two piles of tokens, where players alternate either taking some tokens from a pile or transferring tokens from one pile to the other. In many cases, we calculate the exact period. We also develop several new notions of periodicitiy.
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