Tic Tac Toe (XOXO,XO,Connect 4, 3 in a Row,Xs and Os) Status

It is straightforward to write a computer program to play Tic-tac-toe perfectly, to enumerate the 765 essentially different positions (the state space complexity), or the 26,830 possible games up to rotations and reflections (the game tree complexity) on this space.  Because of the simplicity of Tic-tac-toe, it is often used as a pedagogical tool for teaching the concepts of good sportsmanship and the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with the searching of game trees.  The game can be generalized to an m,n,k-game in which two players alternate placing stones of their own color on an m×n board, with the goal of getting k of their own color in a row.  The player who succeeds in placing three respective marks in a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row wins the game.  Tic tac toe is a paper-and-pencil game for two players, X and O, who take turns marking the spaces in a 3×3 grid.  Players soon discover that best play from both parties leads to a draw.  Hence, Tic-tac-toe is most often played by young children.  Tic-tac-toe is the (3,3,3)-game.