Lesson 01
Choice and chance
You choose where a disc lands. The game chooses what comes next. See how both shape a good move.
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Concepts
Visual lessons on choosing moves, evaluating boards, learning from play, and understanding results.
- Lesson 02
Evaluating a board
How a player estimates the value of the board it leaves behind.
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Score and survival
Why clearing space helps you survive the rising board and keep earning points.
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Reading a score
How unusually long games affect an average, and how to compare strategies fairly.
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Ranking the seven columns
Why choosing a good move means comparing all the available columns.
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Oracles and teachers
How a program with hidden information can help teach a player that only sees the board.
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What more compute buys
What changes when a player looks further ahead, considers more futures, or spends longer learning.
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Learning from play
How played games become examples that help a program choose its next move.
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