Apart from a disappointingly simple 2-player tic-tac-toe game that would enable two players to play against each other, calculating the next possible move would be a mathematical optimization technique that would be not- so-easy to implement.
I am going to explore the Minimax mathematical optimization technique in depth and implement the same on wxWidgets based UX to make a fully feasible tic-tac-toe game that is (almost!) impossible to defeat.
Minimax (sometimes MinMax or MM) is a decision rule used in decision theory, game theory, statistics and philosophy for minimizing the possible loss for a worst case (maximum loss) scenario. When dealing with gains, it is referred to as "maximin"— to maximize the minimum gain. Originally formulated for two-player zero-sum game theory, covering both the cases where players take alternate moves and those where they make simultaneous moves, it has also been extended to more complex games and to general decision-making in the presence of uncertainty.
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