>Ed Pegg, (second most famous US- puzzlist, after Martin Gardner ?)
>Mario Vellucci, (most ? famous chess-puzzlist)
I invited Mario Vellucci some days ago. No reply yet.
Gunter, feel free to invite Ed Pegg (I know he enjoys very much knight
problems).
>you mean, you can easily change your actual program for similar problems ?
Yes, of course. It's easily customizable, if you don't intend to search
16*16 or bigger boards.
12*12 needs to find a way to cut the search space into smaller subsets,
since we cannot run a program during several weeks without stopping it.
>I'd like magic knight tours on a torus. JC, it should be easy
>to change your program for that.
The program can be easily modified, but it will be much slower.
It's time to check for your 34Mb table trick !
George:
>Another thought on names: If your group is going to discover lots more
tours, putting "Mackay, Meyrignac and Stertenbrink" on every one is going to
be a bit laborious (and sound like a firm of international comodity brokers,
or somesuch). How about following the example of the group of French
mathematicians who wrote collectively under the name Nicholas Bourbaki? As a
suitably esoteric sounding name how about Aleister MacMeyster?
I'm not very fond of group pseudonyms. Also, everybody in this
'international group' deserves credits, since we all contributed.
Cut/paste is now very easy to perform on electronic text, and if Gunter is
right, you won't have to update your list anymore :-)
Just a small stupid game: I bet that Hugues will discover 8 more tours.
JC
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