The Martin Gardner column about teaching matchboxes to play tic-tac-toe
was March 1962 Scientific American, "Mathematical Games: How to build a
game-learning machine and then teach it to play and to win"
In the novel "The Adolescence of P-1", by Thomas Joseph Ryan (1977), a
college kid, fasci
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 5:59 PM Brian L. Stuart wrote:
> If it's the one I'm thinking of, the game is called hexapawn,
> though it's played on a 3x3 grid, like TTT. I've always
> had a fond spot for that article. It was one of my inspirations
> back when I did a lot of AI.
I remember Martin Gardn
On Saturday, May 9, 2020, 11:42:11 AM EDT, Tony Duell via cctalk
wrote:
>On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
>wrote:
>>
>> > From: Dwight Kelvey
>>
>> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
There's a guy who brings the stepper/relay TTT mac
> On May 9, 2020 at 10:41 AM Tony Duell via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:>> > From: Dwight Kelvey> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic
> that could play tic tac toe> What's with these new-fangled devices using
> _electricity_ anyw
On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 4:23 PM Noel Chiappa via cctalk
wrote:
>
> > From: Dwight Kelvey
>
> > There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
>
> What's with these new-fangled devices using _electricity_ anyway? :-)
>
> In high school, my math teacher (I think it was
> From: Dwight Kelvey
> There was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe
What's with these new-fangled devices using _electricity_ anyway? :-)
In high school, my math teacher (I think it was) used a couple of matchboxes
and some beads to create a TTT device; he 'pro
> Beating the human player is possible only if the human player does not
> play well. A competent human player (no misteaks) would be able to
> force
> a draw.
Agree completely. However, I am not sure if the sales manager would be as
pleased for a simple draw. After all it does not show the supe
> "Trimmed" is a term meaning "scammed" back in the 1920's usually by a
> confidence man. The goal of a confidence game was typically to "trim a
> mark" for example.
>
> In this context the author was probably saying that not only did they
> get beaten, they got beaten bad in what appeared to be a
On 5/6/2020 10:29 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving
> Accuray: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles", by Marshall William McMurray.
>
> The first couple of chapters merely re-tell the story o
On 08/05/2020 21:23, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Remember, back in the 60's people really didn't take game theory very
seriously. That's why that Merlin game's tic tac toe was so popular.
Nowadays we have u tube to show us how to win at TTT. Back then not so
much.
If you can't work out TT
Remember, back in the 60's people really didn't take game theory very
seriously. That's why that Merlin game's tic tac toe was so popular.
Nowadays we have u tube to show us how to win at TTT. Back then not so much.
C
On 5/8/2020 3:29 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> > However, according to
> > However, according to the New Yorker article the Manrobot beat the
> > human player five times in a row
Consider the possibility that the writer took "did not lose 5 times in
a
row", and wrote that as "WON 5 times in a row".
Not following Fred. The writer wrote: "We got trimmed in fi
On 2020-05-08 7:15 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
> "Trimmed" is a term meaning "scammed" back in the 1920's usually by a
> confidence man. The goal of a confidence game was typically to "trim a
> mark" for example.
>
> In this context the author was probably saying that not only did they
> get
"Trimmed" is a term meaning "scammed" back in the 1920's usually by a
confidence man. The goal of a confidence game was typically to "trim a
mark" for example.
In this context the author was probably saying that not only did they
get beaten, they got beaten bad in what appeared to be a "rigged
> Consider the possibility that the writer took "did not lose 5 times in
> a
> row", and wrote that as "WON 5 times in a row".
Not following Fred. The writer wrote: "We got trimmed in five straight
games, and the vice-president in charge of marketing seemed very much
pleased." The slang is a bit b
I wrote a program for TicTacToe back in 1975 for a Monroe Calculator. I had a
cheat key you could use to launch the game which would allow to win, it only
would stop obvious winning situations, otherwise, the calculator would win or
tie. My 8 year old sister played so bad, she beat it in winning
There are only a few winning and tying patterns for tic tac toe. There was
a fellow that made a relay logic that >could play tic tac toe and would win
against a human of at least tie but never lose.
Checkers is one of the most complicated games.
Dwight
I am not very familiar with the game the
>There are only a few winning and tying patterns for tic tac toe. There was
a fellow that made a relay logic that >could play tic tac toe and would win
against a human of at least tie but never lose.
>Checkers is one of the most complicated games.
>Dwight
Dwight,
I am not very familiar with the
dwight wrote on Thu May 7 08:45:07 CDT 2020:
> There are only a few winning and tying patterns for tic tac toe. There
> was a fellow that made a relay logic that could play tic tac toe and
> would win against a human of at least tie but never lose.
Here's my version of tic tac toe in TTL logic: J
Thanks for the recoomendation Noel, I’ve ordered a copy. Looking forward to
when it arrives!
Cheers
Sytse
> On 6 May 2020, at 17:29, Noel Chiappa via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving
> Accuray: A Legacy
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> Yes, the Monrobot is particularly interesting
> because (among other things) it was reviewed
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> From: j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
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>
> So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: &
> Yes, the Monrobot is particularly interesting
> because (among other things) it was reviewed
> in the New Yorker magazine.
>
> https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/03/19/portable-robot
That must have been quite a machine to beat a person five times in Tic Tac
Toe. Even the WOPR couldn't do t
Noel Chiappa wrote:
> Competent, but nothing special. Then it
> gets interesting, though.
> MONROBOT III (!!),
Yes, the Monrobot is particularly interesting
because (among other things) it was reviewed
in the New Yorker magazine.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/03/19/portable-robot
Bil
So, I've come across an odd book that might interest some here: "Achieving
Accuray: A Legacy of Computers and Missiles", by Marshall William McMurray.
The first couple of chapters merely re-tell the story of earliest computers
(pre-elecronic and electronic), up through the IBM 7
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