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LAT/Freep sep-25-09

 
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storm_norm



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 2:52 pm    Post subject: LAT/Freep sep-25-09 Reply with quote

000026009050000020061900700800010000070608050000090008007000230020000010605100000

Code:

+-------+-------+-------+
| . . . | . 2 6 | . . 9 |
| . 5 . | . . . | . 2 . |
| . 6 1 | 9 . . | 7 . . |
+-------+-------+-------+
| 8 . . | . 1 . | . . . |
| . 7 . | 6 . 8 | . 5 . |
| . . . | . 9 . | . . 8 |
+-------+-------+-------+
| . . 7 | . . . | 2 3 . |
| . 2 . | . . . | . 1 . |
| 6 . 5 | 1 . . | . . . |
+-------+-------+-------+

open in draw/play


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Marty R.



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 5:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had fun with this one, using a variety of steps.

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XYZ (348), ER (3, 3, 4), W (37), XY (493) and XY (478) with pincer transport
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tlanglet



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PostPosted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Marty R. wrote:
I had fun with this one, using a variety of steps.

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XYZ (348), ER (3, 3, 4), W (37), XY (493) and XY (478) with pincer transport

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Skyscraper on 3 in r8c14 and then the xy-wing 47-8 with pincer transport noted by Marty

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Asellus



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is an interesting one-step solution based upon a generalization of the W-Wing concept. The standard W-Wing idea is 2 non-peer matching bivalues which each see the opposite ends of an external strong inference. However, if you consider that bivalues are just the smallest sort of ALS, then the technique can be enlarged by considering multiple cell ALS in place of one or both bivalues. (It is easiest to spot when only one of the bivalues is so substitued, as here.)
Code:
+----------------+-----------------+-------------+
| 7    348  348  | 5     2    6    | 1    48  9  |
|b49   5   b489  |#7-4   478  1    | 6    2   3  |
| 2    6    1    | 9     348  34   | 7    48  5  |
+----------------+-----------------+-------------+
| 8    349  3469 | 347   1    5    | 349  67  2  |
| 349  7    2    | 6     34   8    | 349  5   1  |
| 5    1    346  | 2     9    347  | 34   67  8  |
+----------------+-----------------+-------------+
| 1   c489  7    |a48    5    49   | 2    3   6  |
| 349  2   c3489 | 3478  6    3479 | 5    1   47 |
| 6    34   5    | 1     347  2    | 8    9   47 |
+----------------+-----------------+-------------+

Cell "a" is our usual bivalue and the external strong inference is the conjugate <8>s in b7, marked "c". On the other end is the 489 ALS marked "b". It functions exactly as a W-Wing to remove <4> from "#":

ALS[(4)r2c13=(8)r2c3] - (8)r8c3=(8)r7c2 - (8=4)r7c4; r2c4<>4

I recalled that I had seen an example of this recently and went looking. I found it here in a post by Norm. While Norm's AIC is different, I saw it in this W-Wing based way as:

ALS[(8)r2c2=(4)r23c2] - (4)r1c3=(4)r6c3 - (4=8)r6c4; r2c4<>8

I believe that these are easy enough to spot that you needn't be an AIC user to exploit them.
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