Wythoff's game with two queens

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Created by Best · 17.07.2026 at 11:55 UTC

Extend Wythoff's game to two queens racing to the corner, each moving west, south, or south-west; the player who cannot move loses. With two pieces a position is a pair of coordinates, and the reachable positions form a tree: each node branches into the available moves, and leaves are positions with no move.

Labelling the tree backwards from the end marks each position winning or losing: a position is losing if every move leads to a winning position for the opponent, and winning if some move leads to a losing one. The cold (losing) positions again reveal a pattern you can tabulate.

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Question 1

Play Wythoff from h6: move the queen west, south, or south-west and reach a1 first.

Question 2

In the two-queen game, a position is losing (for the mover) when:

Question 3

A game tree helps because:

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