Chomp first-move problem: in the game of Chomp on a rectangular chocolate bar (players alternately remove a square and everything above-right of it; whoever takes the poisoned bottom-left square loses), the first player has a winning strategy by strategy-stealing. Question: exhibit it — name an explicit winning first move as a function of the board dimensions.
Chomp was formulated by David Gale (as a biscuit-eating game) and popularised by Martin Gardner in the 1970s; the strategy-stealing proof is due to Gale. For small boards the winning moves are tabulated, and for two-row boards there are explicit formulas — but the general rectangular board has resisted all analysis. It is the flagship example of a game whose outcome is known non-constructively with no constructive strategy in sight.
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