The New Sudoku Players' Forum

[champagne]

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we need to revisit SE (sudoku explainer) at some point
I'd like to see a C rewrite from the ground up, for efficiency, portability, and extensibility
the java code is fairly modular, so it would be possible to divide and conquer
given the right perspective we should be able to find the places where it trips up on automorphic permutations
I also believe we can squeeze a lot of cycles out of rating the harder puzzles in the process

Hi Glenn,

I am not sure this would be the right way.

Sudoku Explainer is not performing well, I fully agree, but

1) it's somehow part of the game to face that weakness,
2) To my view, it more due to the set of rules applied than to the coding language.


champagne

PS: Unhappily, I canl not participate to the next game(s). I hope to be back mid July.

[g.r.emlin]

::: game 0110 open LIGHTNING 2010-06-26+23:00:14-0000 dealer JPF 21 clues diagonal (main) symmetry :::

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[joel64]

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[gsf]

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[gsf]

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[g.r.emlin]

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2010-06-27+00:02:00-0000 8.5/7.3/7.3 joel64 rare ED not seen before
2010-06-27+00:03:00-0000 7.2/3.4/3.4 gsf rare ED not seen before


[joel64]

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[g.r.emlin]

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2010-06-27+00:13:00-0000 8.7/2.5/2.5 joel64 rare ED not seen before


[gsf]

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[joel64]

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[g.r.emlin]

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2010-06-27+00:21:00-0000 8.4/7.3/3.4 gsf rare ED not seen before
2010-06-27+00:27:00-0000 8.8/6.6/3.4 joel64 rare ED not seen before


[gsf]

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[joel64]

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[g.r.emlin]

::: game 0110 status LIGHTNING 2010-06-27+00:43:10-0000 :::

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game 0110 2010-06-26+23:00:00-0000 LIGHTNING duration 1h39m dealer JPF page 549 (open) 3 players
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    1.2/1.2/1.2 gsf            7.2/3.4/3.4 gsf            8.7/2.5/2.5 joel64         9.3/9.3/9.3 joel64
    1.5/1.2/1.2 JPF            8.4/7.3/3.4 gsf            8.8/6.6/3.4 joel64
    3.4/3.4/3.4 joel64         8.5/7.3/7.3 joel64         9.0/8.9/3.4 gsf
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    open ratings : 1.7 2.0 2.3 2.5 2.6 2.8 3.0 3.2 3.6 3.8 4.0 4.2 4.4-5.2 5.4 5.6-6.2 6.5-7.1 7.3-8.3 8.6 8.9 9.1 9.2 9.4-11.4

       submitter  entries  score  response  notes
       ---------  -------  -----  --------  -----
             JPF        1    -19         0  dealer
             gsf        4    346     6m29s  rare-0*3
          joel64        5    631    18m14s  rare-0*3,diamond*2,highest-rating=82,last-entry=41
       ---------  -------  -----            -----
               3       10    958            rare-0*6,diamond*2