User blog comment:Meowzz/surreal analysis of tree(3)/@comment-1605058-20180523155816/@comment-35039730-20180525160944

"There is a large body of work on two-player games. In particular, the book Winning Ways by Berlekamp, Conway, and Guy, builds a beautiful theory for classifying games.

Another type of combinatorial game is a one-player game, also called a puzzle. Many games in real life are essentially one-player. One-player games also arise naturally when examing a portion of a two-player game.

The final main type of combinatorial game is a zero-player game. The main example of such a game is a cellular automaton such as John H. Conway's Game of Life."

via Erik Demaine ( http://erikdemaine.org/games/ )

I have seen that particular Goucher post many times before. Part of my motivation in furthering research on combinatorial game theory is to find another approach to T(3). I haven't ever seen more than a few moves into the game represented graphically. I would love to see an analysis like hyp cos did on SCG ( http://googology.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Hyp_cos/SCG(n)_and_some_related ).

[ aside: +1 abstract nonsense - i realize now i should have been tagging most of my posts w/ that .. ]