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  • The Paradox of Boring Games

    Philosophy & Thought

    The Paradox of Boring Games

    Someone in the paradox studies course was planning to talk about some chess sophistry, saying that chess is a boring game, but his reasoning has serious problems. Let me reinforce it a bit: I’ll first offer a chess variant with slightly altered rules, and start with a math problem: **Two-move chess:** Modify the rules of chess so that in each round each player may make two consecutive moves, with everything else unchanged. Prove that the player to move first has a strategy of at least a draw. The proof is very simple: Proof by contradiction. Assume the first player has no strategy of at least a draw. That is, no…

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  • A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games

    Life & Notes

    A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up: An Interlude on Games

    ——————————————(continued from previous)—————————— Let me slow down a bit and write about high school first. What I wrote before was mostly about my academic life, but study and entertainment have always been inseparable. So here I’ll look back once more at the various forms of entertainment and games I’ve enjoyed since childhood: When I was very little there was nothing especially distinctive. I played the toys that ordinary little boys liked to play with, and most of them I barely remember now. What I do remember is that when I was a child I often liked to buy those pretty elastic balls made of rubber. At the time, along Fuyou…

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