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 
---+---+---
   |   | X
---+---+---
   | 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.)

i took a quick look at this and it seemed pretty simple

O probably went 1st and moved in the upper righthand corner

Now X would have gone in the upper lefthand corner to stop a 2-way trap

Now O would go in the bottom righthand corner to force O to block so he can't start an offense

X would be forced to block and go in the remaining space on the right

O would try 2 set up another 2-way trap by goin by moving in the remaining space on top

Finally X would try and stop this by moving to the space below the middle.

Posted by Peter on 2004-05-12 16:39:48