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Do you know the definition of "solved"?

Posted By: Stein Kulseth
Date: Friday, 8 April 2011, at 6:39 p.m.

In Response To: Do you know the definition of "solved"? (Bob Koca)

You are right, they are indeed possible - the first because I maaged to edit out a needed requirement, the other because I were just not thinking it through properly. They were slightly tongue-in-cheek examples to begin with, to illustrate what could make a position illegal.

But then I managed to also illustrate how difficult it can be to decide what is illegal or not. As an example, whether the 15 on 24pt in an empty board is legal or not will depend on how the opponents checkers are placed - whether they may have hit 4 checkers in each of the 3 previous rolls, or not.

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