Re: [OT] Tic-tac-toe strategy: Start in corners?

From	Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk>
Newsgroups	sci.electronics.basics, comp.programming
Subject	Re: [OT] Tic-tac-toe strategy: Start in corners?
Date	2016-12-11 16:06 +0000
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"Mr. Man-wai Chang" <toylet.toylet@gmail.com> writes:

> On 10/12/2016 11:29 PM, Tom Del Rosso wrote:
>> You should start in the corner, not the center.
>
> BTW, do you wanna to prove your claim? :)

If I remember correctly, there are more ways of winning if you start in
the corner (the proof is simply by counting games) and, since you can't
be forced to lose if you start there, you could argue that you might as
well do that.

If you start in the middle there are fewer games that you can win, but
it's also easier to see that you can't be forced to loose and I suspect
it's that which leads people to chose the middle.

By the way, why the cross post to alt.conspiracy?  Do you want to be
taken to be a crank?

-- 
Ben.

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