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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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  Re: 125 years ago...
 
(...) 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) (...) (21 years ago, 18-Dec-03, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)

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