The odd-board first-player conjecture for impartial Tak

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Consider impartial Tak played on an n×nn\times n board, with the first player seeking a winning strategy. Odd-board first-player conjecture. If n>5n>5 is odd, then the first player has a winning strategy for impartial Tak. The supplied text provides no resolution for odd boards beyond the stated range.

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Boris Alexeev, Paul Ellis, Michael Richter and Thotsaporn Aek Thanatipanonda, “The Penults of Tak: Adventures in impartial, normal-play, positional games”, arXiv:2408.01837 (2024).

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