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Who is richer: Javier or Raoul? 2 In a Nim game start with 4 pennies. Each player may take 1 or 2 pennies from the pile. Suppose player I moves first. The game ends when there are no pennies left and the player who took the last penny pays 1 to the other player. (a) Draw the game as we did in 2 × 2 Nim. 7 (b) Write down all the strategies for each player and then the game matrix. (c) Find v + , v − . Would you rather be player I or player II? In the game rock-paper-scissors both players select one of these objects simultaneously.
N, j = 1, . . , m. In addition, taking j = j ∗ on the left, and i = i ∗ on the right, gives a i ∗ j ∗ = v + = v − . This satisfies the condition for (i ∗ , j ∗ ) to be a saddle point. 1) says that if any player deviates from playing her part of the saddle, then the other player can take advantage and improve his payoff. In this sense, each part of a saddle is a best response to the other. This will lead us a little later into considering a best response strategy. The question is that if we are given a strategy for a player, optimal or not, what is the best response on the part of the other player?
Now to prove the von Neumann theorem for matrix games, we start with the fact that v − = max min XAY T ≤ min max XAY T = v + X ∈Sn Y ∈Sm Y ∈Sm X ∈Sn The upper value is always greater than the lower value. Now suppose v − < v + . Then there is a constant γ so that v − < γ < v + . Since v ± (A ± c ) = v ± (A) ± c for any constant, we may as well assume that γ = 0 by replacing A with A − γ if necessary. Now consider the set K = {ξ = AYT + η ∈ Rn | Y ∈ Sm , η ∈ Rm , η ≥ 0}. It is easy to check that this is a closed convex set.