Timeline for Is "do-almost-nothing" ever winning on large CHOMP boards?
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| Sep 8, 2023 at 14:20 | comment | added | Joel David Hamkins | I suggest we call it simply the minimal move instead of the "do-almost-nothing" move or the "almost passing" move, as the latter are cumbersome and not more descriptive than "minimal". But those phrases do seem fine to help motivate the question. | |
| Sep 8, 2023 at 14:12 | answer | added | Sam Benner | timeline score: 5 | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 21:20 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @PeterTaylor That makes me feel better, I thought you meant "quick human calculation." | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 21:16 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Perhaps I should have said "computation" rather than "calculation". My program gets up to $6 \times 11$ in a few seconds, but didn't get as far as $14 \times 14$ in six hours. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 20:40 | history | edited | Noah Schweber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 7, 2023 at 20:37 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @SamBenner Neat! I've incorporated these facts into the question itself. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 16:50 | comment | added | Sam Benner | $6×19$ doesn't work, but $6×27$ does. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 16:26 | comment | added | Sam Benner | Other than $2×n$, $6×11$ is the smallest example, and $6×15$ the next smallest. I'll let you know when my computer reaches $6×19$... | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 15:28 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @PeterTaylor Embarrassingly, I'm not seeing it; what's the quick calculation? (Maybe my coffee hasn't kicked in yet ...) | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 8:04 | comment | added | Peter Taylor | Your memory appears incorrect, but if we assume you misremembered $\max$ for $\min$ some quick calculation shows $6\times 11$ as an example. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 1:50 | comment | added | Noah Schweber | @SamHopkins Oh indeed! That argument is my all-time favorite proof in mathematics, by the way, partly for nostalgiac reasons: it (circuitously) played a non-negligible role in getting me into logic. | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 1:41 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | (I was going to make a comment about how this move is important in the strategy-stealing argument that Chomp is a 1st player win, but I see you mention that as motivation in the MSE question, so I'm just leaving this parenthetical instead...) | |
| Sep 7, 2023 at 1:39 | history | asked | Noah Schweber | CC BY-SA 4.0 |