Math Behind the Game "Quoridor"

Question

I'm going to write an article for middle school students to introduce them to the game "quoridor".

Tha game certainly is interesting, but it will be great to add to the article some serious "math behind the game" stuff.

The problem is, I haven't found any interesting result about the game, neither myself nor on the web. Of course, there are some papers about designing a computer software to play quoridor vs. human etc., but these are not what I'm looking for.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks.

Answer 1

On the wiki page I noticed this appeared:

Lisa Glendenning (May 2005). Mastering Quoridor (B.Sc. thesis). University of New Mexico.

The link to it does not work, but if you can get to it, it probably at least contains references to published work done on the game.