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A strategy choosing an action from the current full game state rather than from the entire prior history. In a finite reachability game, the first-entry rank in the winning fixed-point iteration gives such a strategy by choosing a successor of smaller rank. The state must include all information affecting legal moves, such as ownership of reversible assignments and the player to move.

Solve the finite state graph by winning-set fixed-point iteration, treating positions outside both winning regions as draws. A naive recursive minimax search over histories may run forever around a cycle. Store each ownership-sensitive state once, with a player-to-move flag and all legal successors.

Let $T_A$ and $T_B$ be terminal states where the propositional formula is true and false, respectively. Initialize $W_A^0=T_A$. Repeatedly add nonterminal positions as follows:For $W_B$, start at $T_B$ and exchange the players in the existential and universal conditions. Terminal states keep their original labels and are excluded from these predecessor rules, avoiding a vacuous all-successors test at a terminal loss. Each process stabilizes after at most $|V|$ strict growth steps; predecessor counters implement both regions via the winning-position attractor in an infinite game construction in $O(|V|+|E|)$ graph time.

The admission round supplies a decreasing rank. At a state controlled by the winning player, choose a successor of smaller rank; at an opposing state, every successor already has smaller rank. Hence these strategies force a finite terminal win. The two winning regions are disjoint. Outside both, each player can keep the play outside the opponent's winning region, so neither can force a terminal win against best defence. Under the convention in (h), assign those remaining positions value $0$; the other regions have values $+1$ and $-1$.

This is a finite reachability game calculation, with memoryless strategies read from successor choices. Merely calling the first back-edge encountered a draw is unsound: a cycle can have an exit through which one player can force a win.