2017-03-02

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How long will it take to win a game of chess on an infinite chessboard?

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Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards

Produced by Rusty Ward

Graphics by Ray Lux

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Sources and further references:

Joel Hamkins Website:: http://jdh.hamkins.org/tag/infinite-chess/

Two Hamkins papers about infinite chess:: https://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4377 and https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08155

A ton of links about games:: http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/cgt/

XKCD Optimal Tic-Tac-Toe:: https://xkcd.com/832/

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