One more thing ruined by computers...
CB
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Checkers players worldwide will mourn the end of their beloved game. A team of Computer Scientists at the University of Alberta instructed one of their computers to start playing checkers 18 years ago, and finally it has finished, having played every possible game of checkers.
The decisive outcome:
The computer program, called Chinook, has determine that if both players in a game of checkers, also called 'draughts', play a perfect game, it will end in a draw (as opposed to some other games which result in a win for the player who played first).
What this means is that every game of checkers you play for the rest of your life you will know has already been played by that computer, rendering the actual strategies as practices of the game spiritually depressing and mentally futile. Never again can a person play a game of checkers and think to themselves that something they did in the game was new, or revolutionary. Playing the game in this strange new world would be the strategic and entertainment equivalent of running over a coffee stir with your car.
Likely, no one will ever play the game again... Good thing I've always hated Checkers.
Reuters
The decisive outcome:
The computer program, called Chinook, has determine that if both players in a game of checkers, also called 'draughts', play a perfect game, it will end in a draw (as opposed to some other games which result in a win for the player who played first).
What this means is that every game of checkers you play for the rest of your life you will know has already been played by that computer, rendering the actual strategies as practices of the game spiritually depressing and mentally futile. Never again can a person play a game of checkers and think to themselves that something they did in the game was new, or revolutionary. Playing the game in this strange new world would be the strategic and entertainment equivalent of running over a coffee stir with your car.
Likely, no one will ever play the game again... Good thing I've always hated Checkers.
Reuters
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wait, what? Good thing that WOPR didn't play your version of tic-tac-toe...
There is no way for player 2 to stop player 1 from getting three of the corners without giving player 1 the win on turn three, once player one has three corners, they have at least two ways to complete a line, and player two can only block one of them.
Once a game has been 'solved' in this fashion, it becomes pointless to play.
at least my father doesn't smell of elderberries!
I will start.... Top left corner
EDIT: Hang on....I am not sure if that is true...I just thought of 1 possiblity that would prevent me from getting 2 corners.
Lower Right Corner
X O X
X O O
O X X
(i'm O)
It didn't matter if I chose bottom left, you would have blocked with left mid, then I block at right mid, then you choose something and it would continue.
CB... Player 1 can get 3 corners and not win.
If player2 chooses the center and like you said "doesn't mess up" then player1 will have to block thus preventing the "advantage" of being player1.