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Games as Striped Trees

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A two-player game is a tree in which control of the branching alternates: at some forks one player chooses, at the rest the other does.

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The root is the current position, one player to move; each branch a legal move; one level down, the forks change hands.

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The tree is Unit 2's familiar object — the stripes are the only new ingredient.