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

BLL Rating:

BLL*

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