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By Michael J. Whinihan. The Fibonacci Quarterly 1(4), pages 9–13, December 1963.

Primary paper: www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/1-4/whinihan.pdf

Pages 9–12 give the rules and the least-Zeckendorf-summand winning strategy for Fibonacci Nim.

Michael J. Whinihan published an analysis of Fibonacci Nim in 1963. His paper connects a take-away game with the unique decomposition of an integer into nonconsecutive Fibonacci numbers.^[ref]

After the opening move, a player may remove at most twice the preceding player's removal. The smallest summand in the heap's Zeckendorf representation identifies the strategic threshold. Thus a numerical representation becomes operational information about a winning strategy: the relevant feature is not the heap's size alone but its least Fibonacci component.^[ref]