Public forum discussion.
17 Sep 2022
I've written a program that can play mini optimally by brute forcing the whole game tree. If anyone is interested I could set up a bot account that would play games if invited. And any human-parseable insights that I get out of it I would share. All I know so far is 2+O is a draw.
18 Sep 2022
I should clarify that I have not and would not use it myself during games. I would only use it in games that a separate bot account is playing.
19 Sep 2022
Personally I am welcomed such researches/bots.
Same research is interesting about Polyomino Penta. How you can estemate computational complexity of Penta variant?
19 Sep 2022
From random sampling of the game tree, I estimate the total number of mini games, after picking an opening pair, at 10^12 and the number of penta games between 10^47 and 10^55. Penta would need something more clever than myself armed with a computer crunching through the tree all the way to the end.
19 Sep 2022
That's meant to be "10^12^ and the number of penta games between 10^47^ and 10^55^"
20 Sep 2022
I've set up this account now, pokes_c, challenge it to a game!
From the one game I've played, I've learned this position after 2. Z4 is already lost for blue.