What do we know about Chess, Checkers, and Tic Tac Toe?
Saturday, February 20th, 2010 at
5:11 pm
Hello, I have to write a compare and contrast paper on these three games, and would like some suggestions on how I should start the opening of this paper. It would be a little cliched to start out with: Chess, Checkers, and Tic Tac Toe are three different and similar games. The best how to get prescription drugs without a prescription suggestion, and most thought out answer gets best picked.
In order of complexity, tic-tac-toe is the simplest, and chess is the most complex. There are more possible chess games than there are atoms in the universe. (see Shannon’s number).
A human can learn to play tic-tac-toe perfectly: That is to say, while most games end in a draw, it is possible for a human to learn never to make a mistake and win if his opponent makes one.
While checkers are still played at the competition level and while humans couldn’t possibly remember all the combinations, computers have been programmed to play it perfectly, making no mistakes.
On the other hand, even computers have not yet even come close to completely solving chess. Computers have been made that can beat or draw humans most of the time, but none have yet been capable of beating the best players every single time.
Ever since there has been man, the games of chess, checkers, and tick tac toe have existed in one form or another.
Each game is played with two people (I’m sure you could probably team up on each, but I’ve never heard of or seen it, Nor would I know the rules).
Each is a game of skill and chance. Basically fool proof.
All are played on a board, within squares of sorts. TtT being the exception of not having borders on each placement
Chess and Checkers have Kings. (checkers when you make it to the opposite border without being jumped)
Chess originated in India in or about the 6th century AD when it was known as Chaturanga. It was moved across the world by conquering armies and well received everywhere. By the 1200s, the ‘modern game’ was taken to Scandinavia by the vikings.
Chess originated in India in or about the 6th century AD when it was known as Chaturanga. It was moved across the world by conquering armies and well received everywhere. By the 1200s, the ‘modern game’ was taken to Scandinavia by the vikings.
It was believed that a type of checker was created in a country called Ur in Iraq in 3000 B.C or in Egypt called Alquerque and thena french man thought about playing it on a chess board which made the game have 36 peices.
Tic tac toe was invented in stamford connecticut, man it was the easiest thing. they played a game and called it ticdas to but the americans borrowed it and named it tic tac toe and know it is fdamouse around the whole world
Tic Tac Toe (noughts and crosses for europeans) is in no way similar to checkers (draughts) and chess.
Tic Tac Toe is a cat’s game. Look "cat’s game" up on google and wikipedia.
You should start the paper talking about how and why people have always played games. Then talk about why you chose Chess, Checkers, and Tic Tac Toe amongst all other games. Then talk about how all these games are games of perfect information. Then you can talk about how perfect play in Tic Tac Toe and Checkers leads to a draw, and it is unknown if Chess is as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic_tac_toe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkers
One minor detail the other respondents have neglected to mention is that Tic Tac Toe is a "closed stragegy game" & chess is an "open strategy game." In other words, when 2 people who know how to play tic-tac-toe get together, every game is a draw 100% of the time. Checkers is for at least 99% of the players "open strategy" but is practically "closed strategy" among the world-class players, maybe computers have made it closed strategy, I’ll let you look that up.
The other answers are definitely worth reading & noting, as I said mine is a relatively minor point to most game players.
BTW Edgar Allan Poe claimied that checkers was more difficult than chess. He was full of BS and probably a disgruntled chess player, but you might want to use this quote in your paper:
I hereby take occasion to assert that the highest powers of the human intellect are more decidedly and more tasked by the unostenratious game of Draughts, than by all the elaborate frivolity of Chess. In the latter, where the pieces have different and bizarre motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound."-"Murders of the Rue Morgue."
They are all games of pure skill — no luck is involved. Chess is the most complex of the three, tic tac toe the simplest. It’s been proved that with perfect play (each player makes the best moves) checkers and tic tac toe will always end in a draw. This is probably true of chess, although it hasn’t been proved yet. And computers play better than humans at all three games.
Humans have mastered tic tac toe — children can do it. World class humans have come close to mastering checkers. But even chess grandmasters have much to learn. Former world champion Garry Kasparov said, "Every time I play, I learn something."