Thread: Tic-Tac-Toe Strategy

This is an awesome webcomic anyway, but today he has outdone himself. Truly remarkable.

xkcd: Tic-Tac-Toe

I love xkcd, and this one really was great.

Wow. That is a brilliant graphical representation of tic-tac-toe strategy.

As a side note: When I was in high school I used to train some of the chickens that played tic-tac-toe at the Paul Bunyan Amusement Center in Brainerd Minnesota.
Someone had apparently already worked out the game strategy. The chicken's part of it consisted of pulling a lever behind a shield (called the "thinkin' booth" IIRC) whenever a light came on. There was a dispenser that would drop a pellet of chicken feed when it pulled the lever. The actual game mechanics were of course done by a computer.

If he makes one for chess, I'll be impressed

Computers are getting closer and closer to "solving" chess. They just recently figured out checkers. Go is another story...

Originally Posted by goaT

Computers are getting closer and closer to "solving" chess. They just recently figured out checkers. Go is another story...

I highly doubt they'll ever figure out Go save for a true AI... Way too many variables and potential strategies.