Re: Is someone working on solving Othello?

Rick Pikul wrote:
The point of writing a Sudoku solving program isn't to have a program
that can solve Sudoku puzzles for you. The point is to solve the problem:
"How do you write a program that can solve any given Sudoku puzzle?"

The programmer did exercise his brain, he just worked at the meta level.

Yes, and that's fine. But IMO he had no right to then conclude that
"Sudoku sucks." It's still challenging and enjoyable for many people
to do, without the aid of computers.

His conclusion is like saying it's a waste of time to teach arithmetic
in schools, since electronic calculators are so prevalent.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's still valuable to know how to do
arithmetic without resorting to an electronic device.

--Patrick

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