Dominect: A Simple yet Deep 2-Player Board Game

O. Aichholzer, M. Löffler, J. Lynch, Z. Masárová, J. Orthaber, I. Parada, R. Paul, D. Perz, B. Vogtenhuber, and A. Weinberger

Abstract:

In this work we introduce the perfect information 2-player game Dominect, which has recently been invented by two of the authors. Despite being a game with quite simple rules, Dominect reveals a high depth of complexity. We report on first results concerning the development of winning strategies, as well as a PSPACE-hardness result for deciding whether a given game position is a winning position.



Reference: O. Aichholzer, M. Löffler, J. Lynch, Z. Masárová, J. Orthaber, I. Parada, R. Paul, D. Perz, B. Vogtenhuber, and A. Weinberger. Dominect: A simple yet deep 2-player board game. In 23rd Thailand-Japan Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graphs, and Games (TJCDCGGG 2020+1), pages 112-113, 2021.

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