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Talk by Elwyn Berlekamp: Dots and Boxes, and related Mathematical Games - Streaming-video hour-long special seminar held at MSRI on September 13, 1999 describes the mathematics behind winning strategies.

Postings from rec.games.abstract about Dots and Boxes - Includes a survey of the mathematical and computational literature.

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.

Dots-and-Boxes Analysis - Analysis program and results.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics: Dots and Boxes - Entry with rules, basic strategy, and references.

Connect Capture - A game mixing dots and boxes with chess. Completing a box activates the enclosed chess piece, capturing other activated chess pieces.

Stop Gate - A variation of Dots and Boxes that can be played on a checkerboard or on paper.

Dots and Boxes - Dots and Hexagons - Reviews standard rules, and introduces the analogous game on a hexagonal board.