Estoy trabajando en un algoritmo Minimax para un Tic Tac Toe imbatible. Necesito que funcione tanto para cuando la Computadora se pone primero como para el Jugador primero. Con la versión actual, la computadora nunca perderá cuando vaya primero. Sin embargo, parece que Minimax nunca encuentra un mejor movimiento (siempre devuelve -1 como puntaje) si el Jugador va primero.

¿Qué está causando que la puntuación de Minimax sea -1 para la computadora si el jugador hace el primer movimiento?

Ejemplo:

board.addMark( 1, Mark2.PLAYER ); // add a 'PLAYER' mark to an arbitrary location
Minimax.minimax( board, Mark2.COMPUTER ); // will always return -1

Aquí está la clase 'Minimax':

public class Minimax {
  public static int minimax( Board board, Mark2 currentMark ) {
    int score = (currentMark == Mark2.COMPUTER) ? -1 : 1;
    int[] availableSpaces = board.getAvailableSpaces();

    if ( board.hasWinningSolution() )
      score = (board.getWinningMark() == Mark2.COMPUTER) ? 1 : -1;
    else if ( availableSpaces.length != 0 ) {
      Mark2 nextMark = (currentMark == Mark2.COMPUTER) ? Mark2.PLAYER : Mark2.COMPUTER;

      for ( int availableIndex = 0; availableIndex < availableSpaces.length; availableIndex++ ) {
        board.addMark( availableSpaces[availableIndex], currentMark );
        int nextScore = minimax( board, nextMark );
        board.eraseMark( availableSpaces[availableIndex] );

        if ( currentMark == Mark2.COMPUTER && nextScore > score
            || currentMark == Mark2.PLAYER && nextScore < score )
          score = nextScore;
      }
    }

    return score;
  }
}

Aquí está la clase 'Board':

public class Board {
  private Mark2 gameBoard[];
  private int blankSpaces;

  private boolean solutionFound;
  private Mark2 winningMark;

  public final static int winSets[][] = {
      { 0, 1, 2 }, { 3, 4, 5 },
      { 6, 7, 8 }, { 0, 3, 6 },
      { 1, 4, 7 }, { 2, 5, 8 },
      { 0, 4, 8 }, { 2, 4, 6 }
  };

  public Board() {
    gameBoard = new Mark2[9];
    blankSpaces = 9;

    for ( int boardIndex = 0; boardIndex < gameBoard.length; boardIndex++ ) {
      gameBoard[boardIndex] = Mark2.BLANK;
    }
  }

  public void addMark( int spaceIndex, Mark2 mark ) {
    if ( gameBoard[spaceIndex] != mark ) {
      gameBoard[spaceIndex] = mark;

      if ( mark == Mark2.BLANK ) {
        blankSpaces++;
      } else {
        blankSpaces--;
      }
    }
  }

  public void eraseMark( int spaceIndex ) {
    if ( gameBoard[spaceIndex] != Mark2.BLANK ) {
      gameBoard[spaceIndex] = Mark2.BLANK;
      blankSpaces++;
    }
  }

  public int[] getAvailableSpaces() {
    int spaces[] = new int[blankSpaces];
    int spacesIndex = 0;

    for ( int boardIndex = 0; boardIndex < gameBoard.length; boardIndex++ )
      if ( gameBoard[boardIndex] == Mark2.BLANK )
        spaces[spacesIndex++] = boardIndex;

    return spaces;
  }

  public Mark2 getMarkAtIndex( int spaceIndex ) {
    return gameBoard[spaceIndex];
  }

  public boolean hasWinningSolution() {
    this.solutionFound = false;
    this.winningMark = Mark2.BLANK;

    for ( int setIndex = 0; setIndex < winSets.length && !solutionFound; setIndex++ )
      checkSpacesForWinningSolution( winSets[setIndex][0], winSets[setIndex][1], winSets[setIndex][2] );

    return solutionFound;
  }

  public Mark2 getWinningMark() {
    return this.winningMark;
  }

  private void checkSpacesForWinningSolution( int first, int second, int third ) {
    if ( gameBoard[first] == gameBoard[second] && gameBoard[third] == gameBoard[first]
        && gameBoard[first] != Mark2.BLANK ) {
      solutionFound = true;
      winningMark = gameBoard[first];
    }
  }

  public void printBoard() {
    System.out.printf( " %c | %c | %c\n", getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[0] ), getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[1] ),
        getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[2] ) );
    System.out.println( "------------" );
    System.out.printf( " %c | %c | %c\n", getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[3] ), getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[4] ),
        getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[5] ) );
    System.out.println( "------------" );
    System.out.printf( " %c | %c | %c\n", getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[6] ), getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[7] ),
        getMarkCharacter( gameBoard[8] ) );
  }

  public char getMarkCharacter( Mark2 mark ) {
    char result = (mark == Mark2.PLAYER) ? 'O' : ' ';
    result = (mark == Mark2.COMPUTER) ? 'X' : result;
    return result;
  }
}

Y aquí está la clase 'Mark2' si hubo alguna confusión:

public enum Mark2 {
  BLANK,
  PLAYER,
  COMPUTER
}