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[[FILE:Richard K Guy 2005.jpg|border|right|thumb|Richard K. Guy <ref>Richard K Guy at [http://www.birs.ca/events/2011/5-day-workshops/11w5073 Banff Conference on Combinatorial Game Theory], June 19, 2005, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thane Photo] by [http://thaneplambeck.typepad.com/ Thane Plambeck], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]  
 
[[FILE:Richard K Guy 2005.jpg|border|right|thumb|Richard K. Guy <ref>Richard K Guy at [http://www.birs.ca/events/2011/5-day-workshops/11w5073 Banff Conference on Combinatorial Game Theory], June 19, 2005, [http://www.flickr.com/photos/thane Photo] by [http://thaneplambeck.typepad.com/ Thane Plambeck], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_K._Guy Richard K. Guy from Wikipedia]</ref> ]]  
  
'''Richard Kenneth Guy''', (September 30, 1916 - March 9, 2020)<br/>
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'''Richard Kenneth Guy''', (September 30, 1916 - March 9, 2020 <ref>[https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/British_mathematician_Richard_K._Guy_dies_at_103 British mathematician Richard K. Guy dies at 103 - Wikinews, the free news source]</ref>)<br/>
 
was a British Canadian mathematician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calgary University of Calgary]. His research interests included [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory combinatorial games] <ref>[[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''2009'''). ''The History of Combinatorial Game Theory''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalhousie_University Dalhousie University], [http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Mehlmann/Andis/publ/Spielmod10/HistoryCGT.pdf pdf]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerative_combinatorics enumerative combinatorics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_geometry combinatorial geometry], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory number theory] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory graph theory] <ref>[http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]</ref>. He studied mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], from 1941 to 1949 he was high school teacher at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London Goldsmiths College] and then taught at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Malaya University of Malaya], from 1956 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology Indian Institute of Technology] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi New Delhi], and since 1962 at the University of Calgary <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kenneth_Guy Richard Kenneth Guy – Wikipedia.de] (German)</ref>.  
 
was a British Canadian mathematician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Calgary University of Calgary]. His research interests included [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_game_theory combinatorial games] <ref>[[Richard J. Nowakowski]] ('''2009'''). ''The History of Combinatorial Game Theory''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalhousie_University Dalhousie University], [http://www.eos.tuwien.ac.at/OR/Mehlmann/Andis/publ/Spielmod10/HistoryCGT.pdf pdf]</ref>, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerative_combinatorics enumerative combinatorics], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_geometry combinatorial geometry], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_theory number theory] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory graph theory] <ref>[http://math.ucalgary.ca/profiles/richard-guy Richard Guy | Mathematics and Statistics]</ref>. He studied mathematics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge University of Cambridge], from 1941 to 1949 he was high school teacher at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London Goldsmiths College] and then taught at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Malaya University of Malaya], from 1956 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institutes_of_Technology Indian Institute of Technology] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi New Delhi], and since 1962 at the University of Calgary <ref>[http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Kenneth_Guy Richard Kenneth Guy – Wikipedia.de] (German)</ref>.  
  

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Richard K. Guy [1]

Richard Kenneth Guy, (September 30, 1916 - March 9, 2020 [2])
was a British Canadian mathematician, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Calgary. His research interests included combinatorial games [3], enumerative combinatorics, combinatorial geometry, number theory and graph theory [4]. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, from 1941 to 1949 he was high school teacher at Goldsmiths College and then taught at the University of Malaya, from 1956 at Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, and since 1962 at the University of Calgary [5].

Guy was chess player and composer of chess endgame studies, and was along with John Roycroft and Hugh Blandford co-inventor of the Guy-Blandford-Roycroft code for classifying studies. In 1939, he started the Stockport Grammar School Chess Club [6], and served as endgame study editor for the British Chess Magazine from 1948 to 1951 [7].

Winning Ways

Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays by Elwyn Berlekamp, John H. Conway, and Richard K. Guy is a compendium of information on mathematical games, first published 1982 in two volumes, second edition published in four volumes from 2001 until 2004.

Le Problème

Le Problème, 1938 [8] and 1939 [9] by Richard K. Guy, white to move wins :

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Selected Publications

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