The flaw of the movie wargames was that in reality if you analyze tic-tac-toe you will find the one that does the first move in tic-tac-toe should always win, and so the computer would actually initiate a nuclear war if it really used the game as basis for deciding.
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Can one of them win?
To answer this, we must first defer to the oh-so-wonderful testament to 80's movie greatness, "Wargames"
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The flaw of the movie wargames was that in reality if you analyze tic-tac-toe you will find the one that does the first move in tic-tac-toe should always win, and so the computer would actually initiate a nuclear war if it really used the game as basis for deciding.