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Hi, my 10 year old son wants to take some virtual lessons with you to better understand and play connect 4. Is this something you would consider?

Now I want to play Connect 4 👀

This is kind of random, but I was on your twitch stream one time a while back when you were streaming yourself studying Japanese and I dropped a follow. Today I randomly found you on CZcams and I realized you havent gone live in a while, so I just wanted to know do you ever plan on streaming again?

Explanation is shit. Is this the end of a video? It is like he skipped the beginning. Start easy.

Bro everything went over my head 😭

In chess, its called a Zugzwang (every move is a losing move) or a double-attack Edit: :)

this is an utterly confusing and unnecessary way of explaining Connect 4....utterly confusing....Zugswang is not a thing, things can be explained in much clearer terms...I am an expert

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🧠 Understanding major threats in Connect 4 is crucial for winning, and today's focus is on leveraging threats effectively.* 00:57 *🔄 Parity, referring to even-ness or odd-ness of a number, plays a key role in analyzing Connect 4 positions, as players alternate turns in a total of 42 moves.* 01:53 *🏆 The position of threats matters; a player having threats on rows corresponding to their parity gives a significant advantage.* 04:03 *🤝 Threats on rows with opposite parity can undercut each other, potentially leading to a tie, showcasing the importance of threat placement.* 05:27 *⚠️ Careful consideration of threat placement is crucial during the game's construction, as demonstrated in the Candlesticks opening example.* 06:49 *🤔 Players are favored when threats align with their favored parity rows, but zugzwang situations can arise, forcing suboptimal moves.* 08:39 *🔄 Understanding zugzwang is vital; controlling zugzwang can give a player a strategic advantage in Connect 4.* 10:28 *🧩 In Connect 4, players in zugzwang gain an advantage by having odd row threats, which are slightly stronger than even row threats.* 10:54 *🤯 Knowing the open threats and their row parities allows deterministic prediction of the game's result without needing additional information.* Made with HARPA AI

Do you think you will ever analyze the more modern published version of Connect 4, wherein both players get two "blocker" pieces that give them an extra turn? We play it at my workplace constantly, and the skill floor and skill ceiling both seem orders of magnitude higher than with regular Connect 4.

Are you continuing this series or are you finished with connect four in general?

i'm already good at this game and i made my own openings, ik they're not good against robots but they work againts humans so i won't change them

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

Red could have won much earlier at 9:39 by placing one in the middle

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!

5:53 yellow could have also played in row 4 to win the game but that reinforces this strat anyway

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.

The layers of abstraction here get crazy. I was halfway through when I remembered that the threats aren't actual pieces and this board was essentially the negative-space of the actual board

What program do you use?

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

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its pronounced sugswag

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

This is the strat that I used, I knew it before the vide by myself and I learned that I'm not that bad after all

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

This returning of Zugzwang reminds me of hackenbush

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!

@3:10 yellow could place in 2-nd column and win instantly....

I LOVE this holy shit! This guy is so smart he REFOUND algebra in connect four!

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?

This channel is such a gem!

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?