From: Malte Harder <malte@...>
Date: 2005-02-09T22:19:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [NON-SOLUTION] Solving Tactics (#18)

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> Well, this quiz is tougher than it seems, isn't it?  <laughs>
>
> Unfortunately, I was lazy and didn't want to deal with binary math for 
> rotation and mirroring, so I used Strings.  I'm sure this is horribly 
> inefficient.  I was hoping to simply generate the move tree once, 
> Marhsal it, and work off of that in the future.  But after letting my 
> tree builder run for hours, I had nothing to show for it.

I tried to build the tree too, I think there are 2^16/8 possible boards 
but my program needed more than a minute to generate the tree (and I 
thought marshaling it is kinda cheating ;))...

Up to now I had no time to optimize it ....

Malte