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The first major breakthrough came from (1988) and Victor Allis (1994), working independently. Using retrograde analysis and alpha-beta pruning with a transposition table, Allis proved that the first player can force a win given perfect play. His program, VICTOR , showed that the critical winning move is to play the center column (column 4) on the first move. connect four lustery