Bachelor´s Degree Project presentation: An Introduction to Combinatorial Games and their Temperature

Abstract: A combinatorial game is a two player game with alternating moves and no hidden information or chance elements, such as chess, Go and Connect Four. Some games can be viewed as the sum of simpler games, where a move in the full game consists of moving in one of the terms. The temperature of a game is a measure of the urgency of the first move, and the best move in a sum is often found in the term of highest temperature. This presentation gives an overview of some basic concepts in combinatorial game theory, with a focus on the sum and temperature.