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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nash_Node" data-source="post: 2049775" data-attributes="member: 91200">Read the whole thing and the last phara for me slowly = <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames" target="_blank"> THIS</a>EDIT Disaster is narrowly averted when Falken/Lightman manage to teach WOPR about the futility of war by getting it to play endless drawn games of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac-toe" target="_blank">tic-tac-toe</a> against itself. The WOPR then cycles through all the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_warfare" target="_blank">nuclear war</a> scenarios that it has devised, which all end with no winner. WOPR learns that "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory" target="_blank">the only winning move is not to play</a>" and simply ceases playing. In the end WOPR decides it would prefer "a nice game of chess."</blockquote>

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