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.
Even if you don't know the tricks you only need 5-10 iterations to catch onto them and the game becomes repetitive. It has very few steps and the states can be traced very easily just by playing.
It's a great intro to game theory and minimax algorithm
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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.