I made a Tic-Tac-Toe game in VB .NET but I am wondering if is at all possible to make a computer player

Question

I made a Tic-Tac-Toe game in VB .NET but I am wondering if is at all possible to make a computer player

Answer 1

Yes. Tic-Tac-Toe is a small game in terms of the total number of moves. So one method is to manually assign a move to every possible board layout. This, if done correctly, will guarantee a tie or a win. If you would rather do it in a more sophisticated way search online for game trees and ai.

Answer 2

you could make a never-lose computer. there's like 400 possibilities tho

Answer 3

sure you can make a computer player. The trick is to make a 'good' compuer player :-).  

1. You could make the computer choose a random empty square

2. You could make the computer choose to 'block' when the opponent is about to win.

3. You could make the computer choose rows/columns already already chosen by computer previously.