stackyFACTSWhy bother playing a game when a computer already beat it forever? In 1988, scientists mathematically 'solved' Connect Four. They proved definitively that if the first player drops their disc in the middle column and makes no subsequent mistakes, they will mathematically win 100 percent of the time. The illusion of choice is dead.
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