 | | Re: Brickgame [connect 4] algorithm —Matthew Miller
| | | | (...) I remember reading some years ago that this game has actually been solved; that is, there is a way for whoever goes first to win every time. *does google search* Yeah. Victor Allis of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. (URL) (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: Brickgame [connect 4] algorithm —David Eaton
| | | | | (...) Cool! I rather imagined that such might be possible-- And actually I suppose it wouldn't be *all* that difficult to write an algorithm to prove so, seeing that a game lasts no longer than 49 moves, and at each step, there are a max of 8 moves. (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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