{"id":620,"date":"2003-11-01T09:14:15","date_gmt":"2003-11-01T09:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/?p=620"},"modified":"2003-11-01T09:14:15","modified_gmt":"2003-11-01T09:14:15","slug":"games-people-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lewisdartnell.com\/en-gb\/2003\/11\/games-people-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Games People Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/games.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-441\" alt=\"games\" src=\"http:\/\/lewis.dsruptiv.net\/en-gb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/games.gif\" width=\"110\" height=\"68\" \/><\/a>Mathematicians love games. Not only can they have fun while looking like they&#8217;re busy working, but even the simplest games can demand clever tactics and strategies to win. These are the perfect kinds of problems for solving with maths.<\/p>\n<p>One branch of mathematics, called Combinatorial Game Theory, was developed around 30 years ago specifically to deal with the analysis of games. It prescribes a way of breaking games down into smaller parts that are easier to examine, and then using a special kind of algebra to add up the values of the individual subgames. 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