With 42 slots and more than 4 trillion possible board positions, all you have to do is drop in a disk to fill a Round space, line up four in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally and you win. Simple! You just need to anticipate some moves, figure a strategic algorithm for the advantage. Move ordering? Alpha-beta pruning and transposition tables? Brute-force? Ah, whatever, you're taking too long. Just drop one in the middle.

06.04.20