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#250: The Art of Strategy

The Art of Manliness

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What's the Difference Between Sequential and Simultaneous?

With sequential games, you can look forward and start reasoning backwards. The nice thing about sequential move games is we're not to solve them. You can play out every possible scenario and figure out what is the best way of playing the game. And so that's really easy to do in Tic Tac Toe - which is why nobody plays it once they're above seven. For a while, it was thought that chess was too hard to solve or Go was toohard to solve. But computers will allow them to map out all the sequences, possible sequences.

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