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Infinite positions in 3D chomp

I've recently come back to investigating ordinal chomp. See A winning move for the first player in $3 \times 3 \times \omega$ Ordinal Chomp for a definition. I made a new discovery, that the position \...
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What ordinal corresponds to the T(3)?

Let's play a game. You start with the ordinal $\alpha$ and I start with the empty sequence. Each turn, you decrease your ordinal, and I add a tree (where each node can have one of three labels), ...
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Is every ordinal the nimber of a ring?

This question is about the game of Noetherian rings, see MO/93276. Here I will include the zero ring in order to get better formulas. The nimber of a Noetherian ring is an ordinal number. It is ...
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Anything known about the Grundy Ordinal of Sylver's Coinage

Sylver's coinage is an example of an unbounded finite (if slightly modified) combinatorial impartial game. Quoth wikipedia: The two players take turns naming positive integers that are not the sum of ...