John Conway

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Mathematician, co-founder of combinatorial game theory.

Coauthor of Winning Ways, with Berlekamp and Richard Guy.

[ext] http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Conway


Kaiou: He invented the solitaire pastime (game) of "Life", on a goban. Nothing to do with Go but it is interesting to try. "Life" is played on an infinite goban, with every cell alive or dead, every step deciding the next status of each cell simultaneously.

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