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Subject: Re: OT Question to all programmers

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 02:33:18 05/29/02

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On May 29, 2002 at 00:20:52, Uri Blass wrote:

>On May 28, 2002 at 19:32:58, Federico Corigliano wrote:
>
>>¿Are you created another type of program that is not related to the chess?
>>
>>The answers will be interesting.
>
>Many but only small programs.
>
>The only playing program that I developed many years ago was a program
>that plays the game tic tac toe without losing(I am not sure if it is the name
>of the game in english and in hebrew we called it simply x mix drix)

Sounds a lot better than the dutch name; butter, cheese and eggs.

Tony

>
>I did not save the program but I remember that the memory that was needed was
>7k.
>
>The idea of the game is to have 3 x's or 3 o's in one column or one row or one
>diagnol and the game begins with a empty square 3*3.
>
>Humans with some small experience always draw that game.
>
>The side with x begins and it is important in case that the side with the x put
>the x in the centre to put the o in the corner.
>
>Some simple rules for the first moves +some calculations help my program never
>to lose a game.
>
>The calculation that was done was the following:
>
>1)Can the program win in one move?
>
>If yes play it.
>
>2)Can the opponent win in one move?
>If yes prevent it?
>
>3)Can you threat to win in 2 different ways?
>If yes do it?
>
>In other cases if you can put in the centre do it and there were few more rules
>for special cases.
>
>Uri



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