Re: Cathedral puzzle

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

My best solution so far leaves a tie with black and
white each having 28 unplaced squares: (four five-
square buildings and two four-square buildings).  Can
anyone do better than that?

Cheers,

Lyman

--- Randall Bart <barticus@att.net> wrote:
> 
> >Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2002 20:01:27 -0700 (PDT)
> >From: lhurd@yahoo.com
> >Subject: Cathedral puzzle
> >
> >I have been curious about the following.  In a
> legal
> >Cathedral game, what is the highest number of
> unplaced
> >squares (i.e., the infirmary counts as 5 etc.) for
> the
> >WINNING player at the time when the game sends?
> 
> It won't happen in real play, but I could arrange
> the pieces so that over 
> half the squares are uncovered.
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