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Re: 125 years ago...
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Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:33:37 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

> So Rosco's question is legit, although hair splitting, it's possible to get a
> draw in Checkers (both sides have a single king, for example)

Um, AND tic tac toe! I was just using checkers as an example, honest.


> However I would consider an automaton that ALWAYS draws in checkers to actually
> be a much harder problem to achieve than one that wins most of the time or even
> one that always wins..

This is also true in my view of tic tac toe but not as relatively hard.



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(...) Um... { "not losing" == "winning" } == FALSE but { "not losing" & "not drawing" == "winning" } == TRUE So Rosco's question is legit, although hair splitting, it's possible to get a draw in Checkers (both sides have a single king, for example) (...) (23 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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