Sure thing. Here's the translation: Win with confidence. Volume 1

Author: Berlekamp
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2003-11-30
Features: Preface: Does a book necessarily need a preface? Especially, after fifteen years of hard work, what more can three talented authors add? We want to tell readers heading to the bookstore: "Yes, this is exactly the book you want to buy!" We can guide you—if you want to quickly grasp the book's content, please turn to the very last page of the preface and refer to pages 1,255,427 and 695. Reviewers will have to painstakingly delve into nearly a thousand pages of information-packed text, and we will provide them with concise and illuminating titles that highlight the main themes of the book. However, this is not an encyclopedia of games—it has encyclopedic qualities but is not entirely comprehensive, leaving out many games. It is not a book solely about game mathematics, as it contains far too much serious mathematics. On the other hand, in our view, much like our predecessors, such as Rosser, Dudeney, Martin Gardner, Krecik, Sam Loyd, Euler, Tom Opie, and Fretz Schan, mathematics is, at its core, a game. It is not a textbook for university students, as the exercises are not organized in the usual progressive manner, starting easy and getting harder. Additionally, there are 163 deliberately placed errors in the book, giving readers ample room to participate actively. So don’t just stand by as mere spectators, cheering from the sidelines—even though it is indeed a highly artistic work. It is also not a textbook for graduating students, as it is expensive and contains far too much material, far exceeding the content any graduating student needs to cover. But it truly brings you to the forefront of research in combinatorial game theory, with numerous unresolved problems to inspire further study.
We would like to thank Patrick Brounne for suggesting the book title. This issue had been troubling us for some time. One morning on the way to school, John and Richard suddenly had the idea of "Whose Game?" as the title, but they realized it might not be strong enough (because it has at least three different meanings in English, with even more ambiguities). Eventually, they changed it to the chapter title of the first chapter in the main text, turning it into a joke within the book. There isn’t enough space here to explain all the jokes in the book, even the 59 that are somewhat personal (our birthdays appear in the book more than once). For the diligent reader, the initial jokes later gain momentum, becoming the "King of Hearts" in a deck of cards.
Louise Guy also helped proofread the proofs, but her greater contribution was her hospitality, giving us three frequent opportunities to work together. After Karen McDermid and Betty Tierney completed many drafts, Louise took on the technical typing. We sincerely thank the many contributors who helped bring this book to fruition, the number of whom can be roughly glimpsed in the surname section of the index. To be truly fair and include everyone would require too much space, so here we can only name a few: Richard Austin, Clive Bach, John Basley, Aviezri Fraenkel, David Frampton, Solomon Golomb, Stanford Gran, Mike Guy, Dean Hickson, Hendrik Lenstra, Richard Nowakowski, Anne Scott, David Hill, John Selfridge, Sedgewick Smith, and Stanford Zehner.
The success of this book is particularly owed to the careful guidance of the knowledgeable and well-informed Ron Segevka, as well as the strong support of academic publishers and Peck Brothers. They accommodated some quirks of the authors: these guys never miss an opportunity to tweak grammar and semantics, twist the original text, misuse punctuation, change word spellings, insert many whimsical foreign words, and add plenty of inside jokes. We should also thank the Vanier Scholarships for providing financial support, enabling Richard to serve as a resident scholar at the University of Calgary to finalize the book. We also thank the National Research Council of Canada for providing funding, allowing Erwin and John to frequently meet and collaborate with Guy, as these authors, in their usual habits, are like clouds and wild geese, rarely gathering together.