Question: Call a position X an A-position if it does not have an option that is an O-positions, and call X an O-position if at

Call a position X an A-position if it does not have an

 

Call a position X an A-position if it does not have an option that is an O-positions, and call X an O-position if at least one of its options is an A position. (a) Terminal positions, i.e., positions which have no options at all, are A-positions. (b) Consider the following strategy: If X is an O-position, it has an option that is an A-position, so move to it; if X is an A-position, then move at random. Show that this strategy guarantees a win to next player when the game starts at an O-position. That is, every O-position is an N-position. (c) Show that, if X is an A position, then no matter what move the next player makes, the other player has a winning strategy. That is, every A-position is a P-position. We will never use this A- and O- terminology again. We just introduced it along the way to show that this recursive definition of P- and N-positions is equivalent to the strategy definition.

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