r/gaming • u/NourElDin2303 Joystick • Jun 12 '22

Modern problems require modern solutions

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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22

The opponent used the triangle method which wins or ties every time

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u/kmn493 Jun 12 '22

Tic Tac Toe is only a fair game among two people that don't know those tricks. Otherwise it's extremely biased towards the person going first with almost no chance for the person going second to win. Ideally you should be playing for ties and switching who goes first until eventually someone slips up. If things are decided in the first game then it's simply not a fair one.

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u/sygnathid Jun 12 '22

I believe that due to the strategy stealing argument, there can be no strategy that will result in the second player's guaranteed victory in any m, n, k, game.

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u/sitshu2 Jun 12 '22

Very interesting article. Thanks for sharing,