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Subject: Re: A Christmas puzzle

Author: Olaf Jenkner

Date: 04:11:56 12/27/99

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>>No, go ahead try. You have to make a kind of helpmate engine (no alpha beta) and
>>search for the specified condition.
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>Mmh...
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>In fact I was just trying to find an excuse to not do it... :)
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>And if a computer program finds the solution, it is less fun I think.
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>    Christophe

It takes about 30 hours with my modified helpmate engine.
But it is only brute force, without any heuristics.

Without computer I solved the puzzle within 90 minutes.

• Re: A Christmas puzzle Enrique Irazoqui 04:15:20 12/27/99
  • Re: A Christmas puzzle Olaf Jenkner 09:09:51 12/27/99
    • Re: A Christmas puzzle Frederic Friedel 16:08:23 12/27/99
      • Re: A Christmas puzzle Michael J Fitch 06:13:06 12/28/99
        • Re: A Christmas puzzle Frederic Friedel 06:33:54 12/28/99
          • Re: A Christmas puzzle Michael J Fitch 07:27:27 12/28/99
            • Re: A Christmas puzzle Olaf Jenkner 15:34:50 12/28/99

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