Tic, Tac, Doh

We have a tic tac toe board with alternating yellow and blue squares and yellow x's and blue o's. Beckett has decided that you have to play the yellow x's on the yellow squares and the blue o's on the blue squares. This means that tic tac toe is even MORE fun than usual. If you are the yellow x's you get to savor dominating victory every time, and if you are the o's you get crushed in ignominious defeat. I keep trying to inject some other strategy into the game, but I get soundly denounced each time and the sergeant of arms of the game makes sure I play by the rules.