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  2. First-player and second-player win - Wikipedia

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    Diagram showing optimal strategy for tic-tac-toe.With perfect play, and from any initial move, both players can always force a draw. In combinatorial game theory, a two-player deterministic perfect information turn-based game is a first-player-win if with perfect play the first player to move can always force a win.

  3. How to Win Tic-Tac-Toe: The Strategies You Need to Master - AOL

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    How to win tic tac toe requires strategic thinking and planning to win the game or force a draw. When you’re the first one up, there is a simple strategy on how to win tic tac toe: put your ‘X ...

  4. Strategy-stealing argument - Wikipedia

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    A strategy-stealing argument can be used on the example of the game of tic-tac-toe, for a board and winning rows of any size. [2] [3] Suppose that the second player (P2) is using a strategy S which guarantees a win. The first player (P1) places an X in an arbitrary position. P2 responds by placing an O according to S.

  5. Solved game - Wikipedia

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    A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly.This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory or computer assistance.

  6. Tic-tac-toe - Wikipedia

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    Tic-tac-toe A completed game of tic-tac-toe Other names Noughts and Crosses Xs and Os Genres Paper-and-pencil game Players 2 Setup time Minimal Playing time ~1 minute Chance None Skills Strategy, tactics, observation Tic-tac-toe (American English), noughts and crosses (Commonwealth English), or Xs and Os (Canadian or Irish English) is a paper-and-pencil game for two players who take turns ...

  7. Matchbox Educable Noughts and Crosses Engine - Wikipedia

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    If the human player is familiar with the optimal strategy, and MENACE can quickly learn it, then the games will eventually only end in draws. The likelihood of the computer winning increases quickly when the computer plays against a random-playing opponent. [3] When playing against a player using optimal strategy, the odds of a draw grow to 100%.

  8. Nash equilibrium - Wikipedia

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    A strategy profile is a set of strategies, one for each player. Informally, a strategy profile is a Nash equilibrium if no player can do better by unilaterally changing their strategy. To see what this means, imagine that each player is told the strategies of the others.

  9. Strong positional game - Wikipedia

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    Hence, every winning-strategy of First in a strong-positional game is also a winning-strategy of Maker in the corresponding maker-breaker game. The opposite is not true. For example, in the maker-breaker variant of Tic-Tac-Toe, Maker has a winning strategy, but in its strong-positional (classic) variant, Second has a drawing strategy. [2]