Re:Hikaru Nakamura's Forbidden Platform
by loansindi on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @09:17AM
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The biggest benefit, in my opinion, of doing puzzles is building pattern recognition. If that obvious dumb guess is consistent for the structure presented in the difficult-but-guessable puzzle, then I think there's still value to doing it.
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It's not; that's the point.
Level 1000 puzzle: obvious pattern move is correct, no surprise.
Level 1400: obvious pattern move is correct, but you have to check a potential threat unless you are guessing.
Level 1800: obvious pattern move is incorrect, need to notice the threat and findnthr better move.