Talk:Shannon switching game

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A Picture, Please

A picture or three would be tremendously useful. Kilyle 13:07, 26 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Original Gale Game design

I formerly only knew the design as implemented here, where the players do not short and cut, but instead always connect points (with each player having his own set of points). Yes, this representation is equivalent to that of the Shannon Switching Game, but, at the first glance, the playfields looks very different.

Maybe someone could come up with a depiction of the Gale Game as I (and probably also a number of other people) know it, and then even write a short explanation why they are equivalent? I mean, it's obvious for me, but that doesn't count as a proof (at least that's what my math teacher told me :-)). --Klaws (talk) 13:05, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where was this game first described?

I have been looking for a paper of Shannon describing this paper for a while, and couldn't find it.

Does anyone know which paper it was? יובל מדר (talk) 12:31, 20 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The first published reference was in Martin Gardner's column in the Oct. 1958 Scientific American, where he described a machine Shannon built in 1951 for playing Gale (which he called Bird Cage). Gardner didn't cite any sources. I have a few of Shannon's papers from 1949-1950, and there's no mention of the game in any of them. Maybe because it didn't lead to anything useful or proveable.Sbalfour (talk) 18:02, 15 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]