ABSTRACT
This chapter considers a primitive game to be one of pure conflict when every positive outcome for one player is associated with a negative outcome for the other, and with all negative outcomes likewise associated with the other's positive outcomes. The Allied forces had consolidated their positions in the Normandy area in the weeks after D-Day, but the Germans had kept them from advancing eastward into the main part of France. Finally, in a move southward, the American forces broke through near the town of Avranches. In a narrow gap there between the German forces and the sea, General Patton's troops moved through and raced westward into Brittany, while other forces were beginning an advance eastward from that same break in the German lines. To continue with the 1944 war in France, disasterous consequences for the German armies followed shortly after the battle of Avranches.
