Lecture notes prepared for the American Mathematical Society short course Combinatorial games, held in Columbus, Ohio, August 6-7, 1990.
What is a game? / Richard K. Guy Numbers and games / John Horton Conway Impartial games / Richard K. Guy More ways of combining games / John Horton Conway Introductory overview of mathematical go endgames / Elwyn Berlekamp Games and codes / Vera Pless Complexity of games / Aviezri S. Fraenkel ..., Welter's game, Sylver coinage, dots-and-boxes, ... / Richard J. Nowakowski Unsolved problems in combinatorial games / Richard K. Guy