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Connect Capture A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces. http://www.geocities.com/alpine_rick_2000/
Dots and Boxes - Dots and Hexagons Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board. http://www.drking.plus.com/hexagons/dots/
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Dots and Boxes Entry with rules, basic strategy, and references. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DotsandBoxes.html
Postings from rec.games.abstract about Dots and Boxes Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature. http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/uses-math/games/other/dots_n_boxes
Talk by Katherine Scott: Loony Dots and Boxes Endgame Streaming-video 30-minute talk held at MSRI during the Combinatorial Game Theory Research Workshop, July 24-28, 2000. Describes a particular type of endgame which arises frequently in practice and can be solved in polynomial time. http://www.msri.org/publications/ln/msri/2000/gametheory/scott/1/

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