Claimeven - Connect 4 Strategy

HE SAID NEXT VID IS THE ONE THAT CHANGES VIEW ON REALITY

Why is the music so ominous l? I’m literally pissing and pooping my pants

Welp, I guess it's time for me to drop everything and dedicate myself to learning Connect 4 pro strategies.

Only half joking there, I always enjoy learning cool strategies for simple games like these. I guess I'm a bit more competitive than I thought.

was i suppose to be playing as red in the last puzzle bro. i was thinking i was yellow and trying to find a way for yellow to win. i was able to find the way to force win as red tho

Are you 3blue1brown?

Me and my friend have played semi-serious connect four for the longest time. I got super into counting evens and odds to try and figure out the best move, but this blows all of that out of the water with how much simpler and more effective it is!

Yeah I get it I guess but no idea how to do it still.

Whats the background music?

This should prove a useful strategy against my 5 year old niece, thanks

my 4 year old niece will not know what hit her if i use this on her

I don't know how I got here. I just know I love the logic.

I have 3 homework assignments due in 4 hours.

OMG I'm so glad I found this channel. I played a ton of connect 4 as a kid. I was quite good (so I thought) and hardly ever lost. I really liked math and abstract algebra and I played the game a ton. Later, I stopped playing connect4 in favor of Rubik's cubes.

Recently one day when I was bored I picked up the game again online and was once again fascinated by all the cool and unique problems it threw at me. I got smashed by a few players and learned from them. I love this game so much.

I mean isnt this just parity in general? For example, in the last game, you can just say some columns are useless, then apply claimeven on the rest of the board

this is the lamest shit I've ever seen in my recommended

What if the connect 4 grid is only 5 rows tall

you should aim to cut out the gaps between sentences, this video is 50% waiting around in silence for you to continue speaking

my opponent connecting 4 on the first layer because i watched this video

This video feels like a horror movie

I had to get up for work 39 minutes ago.

Hey i am here to critique as a stupid-ass viewer. Feel free to ignore me. I feel like you talk too slowly and have too complex sentences. You probably don't want to change your style, but maybe you can try to be a little bit more thoughtful about how you make your script in that direction. Slow sentences will make people think. Silences, between those amplify the thinking. That makes you interrupt people's thought's when you start talking again.
This happened to me and a friend who watched this one, we're both students of computer science and i made the personal decision to tell you this.
I want to clarify, if you feel bad with this message just ignore it, but maybe, just maybe, it will help you in some way c:
Loved the vid! Good luck! Subscribed!

Hello, for rendering the boards if you could please make a small indicator to tell who's turn it is to play I would appreciate it. Thanks.

I think a smaller version of the connect four token of each color on the bottom left and bottom right of the board, going from the faded to solid depending on who's turn it is. The solid should mean that that player will place the next token.

Listening to you explain this game makes me think you could teach anything.

What an absolute chad. Please keep making these vids

Well this is the most interesting thing I've heard about in a while, time to study connect four I guess!

This is what I needed to beat impossible cpu on 51 Clubhouse games!

But what's a good strategy to start the game and end up in a favorable position?

Love the content and the pace, but those empty silences between each phrases are very ennerving

Regarding the last example, is it possible to play claimeven as the first player when you don't have a threat on the claimodd column?

The entire video I was waiting for a mathematical generalisation, but it's just a genuine connect 4 strategy

This kind of reminds me of "zugzwang" in chess.

I got my friends obsessed with connect 4 in high school good to know there was some sense in the strategies we made

Did not know connect 4 went this deep

here to figure out how to crush my gf every time she sends me one of these on imessage

Holy fucking shit

This strategy is far from 100%. Say red goes first, which will obv be the first line, you fill the pair on top, they go next to that on the first row and then you go second row again, continuing until they now have 4 on the first row because you were too busy filling the pairs.

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thanks for captions!

Not sure if this is correct, in all the positions you show it’s reds move but I don’t think that is possible given the position. Yellow must have gone first and given the equal number of pieces on the board it must be the first players move.

I’m just surprised there are experts in this

I was so confused at first with the final example, it took me a second to realize you were looking at it from red's perspective now
Also, this was super cool and I'm really interested in learning more!

I’ve heard that connect4 is a solved game where p1 is guaranteed to win with perfect play - does this strategy rely on p1 making a mistake that allows p2 to employ it?

I don't have much experience with connect four, but I won class championship with similar strategy. It was eleven years ago, but I still remember that there was spot that would give me win, but only if opponent places stone before me, so we filled rest of the board so no one would win until we get to here. Somehow I figured out that if we'll do that then my opponent will be first to put stone in column, so I had only to stall for time

wow

i always figured connect 4 was a shallow game like checkers

I did this as a kid, didn't know it was an actual strat