Conway games were introduced by J. H. Conway in 1976 to provide a formal structure for analyzing games satisfying certain requirements: 1. There are two players, Left and Right (L and R), who move alternately. 2. The first player unable to move loses. 3. Both players have complete information about the state of the game. 4. There is no element of chance. For example, nim is a Conway game, but chess is not (due to the possibility of draws and stalemate). Note that Conway's "game of life" is (somewhat confusingly) not a Conway game.

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