Well in an finite game (aka only 9 freaking moves max) you don''t need any learning on part of the computer. SO writing an AI that "learns" in couple of secs is kinda bullshit to me.

Only in games with infinite possiblities (ala chess, movement in a free world) would you need a learning ai that could delevop paterns..

Once in a state science fair I wrote the game othello. (8x8 board) with finite moves and all I did was map out every possible move in a tree and then just selected moves based off that. And the stupid judge couldn''t understand the fact that the computer doesn''t learn anything in this type of game....anyways that''s my little story

Pactuul

This may be your problem. I only looked at your program for a second.

    void cTurn(int& rRow, int& rCol){	bool fQuitt = false;	while(!fQuitt)	{		srand( (unsigned)time( NULL ) );		int cRow = (rand()%2-0) + 0;		int cCol = (rand()%2-0) + 0;				if(b[cRow][cCol]==0)		{			b[cRow][cCol]=2;			fQuitt = true;			break;		}	}}    

Every time CTurn is called, you set fQuitt to false.

I'm pretty sure fQuitt needs to be TRUE for it to win, right? (I wish I had more time to look at the source)

--Lowell N. Manners
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Edited by - Lowell Manners on October 24, 2001 12:49:57 PM