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Philip Ehrlich
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A negative answer to your question is implicit in the results proved in Chapter VIII (Transfinite Games) of Combinatorial Game Theory by Aaron N. Siegel, American Mathematical Society, 2013.

The multiplication familiar from the theory of surreal numbers is only defined for long games, not games more generally, and even the class of long games (which contains the surreal numbers) is not a commutative ring.

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