Domineering games with minimal number of moves

The paper is here.

What is domineering?

Domineering is a 2-player (combinatorial) game played on a rectangular board (of any size). Play consists of the two players alternately placing a tile (domino) on adjacent empty squares; Left places vertically and Right places horizontally. The game ends when the player whose turn it is cannot place a piece; and the player who cannot place loses - this is the normal play condition.

☑️ What did we do?

We find the minimum number of moves for a game of domineering to end on all rectangular boards up to size . For this, we used the Maple codes ⤴️ and the analysis described on Page 3 of our paper to find the answers.

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S.D.G.