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Timeline for Generalized tic-tac-toe

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Aug 3, 2012 at 19:57 vote accept Timothy Chow
Aug 3, 2012 at 10:33 comment added user9072 Thanks for the clarification/addition. And +1 for even making it an optimal strategy (regarding numer of moves).
Aug 3, 2012 at 2:05 comment added Will Sawin I fixed my answer.
Aug 3, 2012 at 2:01 history edited Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 3, 2012 at 1:52 comment added Timothy Chow Nice catch, quid. I have "unaccepted" the answer.
Aug 3, 2012 at 1:44 comment added Will Sawin You are correct. This is incomplete or wrong.
Aug 2, 2012 at 23:47 comment added user9072 Either I do not understand this description or it is incomplete/wrong. Let me illustrate my problem with an example. Say let n=5, so we choose 0 (according to startegy) and they choose say -4. Now (according to strategy) we choose b=1 and c=2 so neither 1, 2, nor 1+2 is 4. Then we name b=1 so they need to name -1. And now we name c=2. Yet now we lost if they choose 5 (instead of -2)! [We could still win if instead of 2 we defend at 5, forcing them to take -5 and then choose 2, but this is not the point.]
Aug 2, 2012 at 21:48 comment added Timothy Chow Clever! Wish I'd seen it.
Aug 2, 2012 at 21:48 vote accept Timothy Chow
Aug 3, 2012 at 1:52
Aug 2, 2012 at 15:38 history edited Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 2, 2012 at 15:24 history answered Will Sawin CC BY-SA 3.0