Tag Archives: Games

Test Your Intuition (17): What does it Take to Win Tic-Tac-Toe

Posted on March 15, 2013 by

(A few more quantum posts are coming. But let’s have a quick break for games.) Tic Tac Toe is played since anciant times. For the common version, where the two players X and O take turns in marking the empty squares … Continue reading →

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The Retaliation Game

Posted on January 13, 2009 by

  We have two players playing in turns. Each player can decide to stop in which case the game is stopped and the two players can go on with their lives, or to act. The player that acts gains and … Continue reading →

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Amir Ban on Deep Junior

Posted on June 25, 2008 by

Ladies and Gentelmen: Amir Ban (right, in the picture above) the guest blogger, was an Israeli Olympiad math champion in the early 70s, with Shay Bushinsky he wrote Deep Junior, and he is also one of the inventors of the “disc on … Continue reading →

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