Positional game

contains the 8 lines that determine a victory (3 horizontal, 3 vertical and 2 diagonal), and the winning criterion is: the first player who holds an entire winning-set wins.

A positional game is finite, deterministic and has perfect information; therefore, in theory it is possible to create the full game tree and determine which of these three options holds.

Therefore, positional games are usually analyzed via more sophisticated combinatorial techniques.

In this case: There are many variants of positional games, differing in their rules and their winning criteria.

The following table lists some specific positional games that were widely studied in the literature.