User blog comment:Meowzz/surreal analysis of tree(3)/@comment-1605058-20180523155816/@comment-1605058-20180524214128

Wanted to add a reply yesterday, but Wikia has thrown an error and I didn't want to type it up again.

Sure, we can view tree(3)/TREE(3) as a game, but importantly it's a one-player game. The surreal numbers and other tools of combinatorial game theory are mostly applicable to two-player games.

However, that reminded me of a post by Goucher in which he does briefly talk about a two-player game on trees and about chomp, but this tell us absolutely nothing about the value of TREE(3).