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Mathematical Go

Mathematical Go: Chilling Gets the Last Point, by Elwyn Berlekamp and David Wolfe, A K Peters Ltd, Natick, MA, 1994 (now part of CRC Press). Japanese translation published by Toppan Publishing Company, Tokyo.

"Go Thermography: The 4/21/98 Jiang-Rui Endgame", by Bill Spight, in More Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 42), 89-105. (Warning: First page is blank.)

"The Economist's View of Combinatorial Games", by Elwyn Berlekamp, in Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 29), 365-405.

"The Thousand Dollar Ko", by Elwyn Berlekamp and Yonghoan Kim, in Go World issues 70 and 71, 1994, Ishi Press, San Jose; also in Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 1996 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 29), 203-226.

"Generalized Thermography: Algorithms, Implementation, and Application to Go Endgames" by Elwyn Berlekamp, Martin Müller, and Bill Spight, 1996 TR-96-030, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, ISSN 1075-4946. To download, go to item [18] in Müller's online bibliography.

"Analysis of Composite Corridors", by Elwyn Berlekamp and Teigo Nakamura, 2002 (lecture slides also available).

"An Application of Mathematical Game Theory to Go Endgames", by Takenobu Takizawa, in More Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 42), 107-124. (Warning: First page is blank.)

"The 4G4G4G4G4 Problems and Solutions", by Elwyn Berlekamp, in More Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 42), 231-241.

"Go Endgames Are PSPACE-Hard", by David Wolfe, in More Games of No Chance, edited by Richard Nowakowski, Cambridge University Press, 2002 (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 42), 125-136.