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Variation on a matrix game

The original problem appeared on last year's Putnam exam: "Alan and Barbara play a game in which they take turns filling entries of an initially empty 2008×2008 array. Alan plays first. At each turn, ...
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Playing an (invertible) matrix game with two players

Players $A$ and $B$ take an empty $n \times n$ matrix and place, one by one, an element (say, a rational number) in an unoccupied place of this matrix. Player $A$ starts. The game ends if there is no ...
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