EdTrice: Oh, ok. It seemed like you were talking about Ponds (here). In that case, let's play a game of Pente. ;-)
As far as your strategy goes, you're saying that it works as long as another player does not employ the same stragegy or intentionally make a "kamakaze" bet. Is that right?
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