Given this tic-tac-toe position, as played by two expert players, who went first and where? Also, which was the last "move"?

 X | O | O 
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   |   | X
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   | X | O

(An expert player is a player who would never play in such a way that would allow his opponent to win, and who would also try to get the possible best result.)

o (box9)

x (box 8)

0 (box3)

x (box6)

o (box2)

x (box1)

assuming

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 1 | 2 | 3 |

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 4 | 5 | 6 |

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 7 | 8 | 9 |

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Posted by nathan on 2004-09-15 06:24:58