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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 iii Paper 158 4 i a Solution by
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Player I cannot have a winning strategy. This is the Solovay rank-comparison game: any proposed strategy for I can be challenged by a well-order code whose rank lies beyond the bound obtainable from that strategy, so that either I produces or produces with . In either case Player II wins.
The axiom of determinacy says that the game is determined. Since Player I has no winning strategy, the winner is therefore
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