OLLI WORKSHOP ON COMPUTERS VERSUS HUMANS

Fourth Set of Visuals (October 5, 2010)
Copyright ©2010 by Theo Pavlidis

The brute force approach to game playing: Tic-Tac-Toe


Trying the same thing for Checkers: The Chinook Project

About 200 computers over 15 years examined all possible moves. Some of the results are shown below

(a)(b)
Figure 3.3.2: (a) The best opening move; (b) The worst opening move.