From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Chris Thompson)
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Chomp (a game)
Date: 17 Dec 1995 16:59:50 GMT

In article <4arrc9$jrs@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>, 
fc3a501@AMRISC03.math.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Reddmann) writes:
|> "Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays", Conway/Berlekamp/Guy.
|> If it's not there, it's nonexistent :-)

Alternatively, it does exist, so it must be there! In fact, it is in
the notes to the chapter on Sylver Coinage. (Like S.C., Chomp is a game
which in the natural presentation is trivial with normal play and
difficult with misere play, so one makes the misere play look more
natural by poisoning the last choccy, or the one-unit coin.) Their table
of winning first moves for rectangles doesn't go all that far, but does
include the 10x8 rectangle, for which there are two different winning
first moves. 

Chris Thompson
Email: cet1@cam.ac.uk