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Board geometry: Horizontal or Vertical?
Posted by johnG on Tuesday, July 18 @ 10:17:54 EDT (1861 reads)
Topic Playing
by Mike Baron

In a message dated 4/29/05 Amit Charkrabati wrote:
> ...Any legal sequence of moves can be transposed (the
> same way as you transpose a matrix) to get another legal
> sequence of moves where the first play is switched from
> horizontal to vertical, or vice versa.

This may be more BREASTS+U [1] than anyone cares to pursue, but I'll defer to John Chew's suggestion that this may call for simulation. However, just a few eyeball counts:


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Board geometry: Tuning one's study to types of play on board quadrants
Posted by john on Thursday, July 22 @ 19:52:36 EDT (1243 reads)
Topic Study Approaches
Randall Thomas writes: Maybe this has been covered before, I wouldn't mind hearing about various 'secrets' players have come up with regarding the mandala-layout of the board...


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