On Feb 6, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Sea&Gull wrote:

> I made one guess - count of possible wins of the first and
> second player on the 4x4 board is in direct proportion to
> count of their wins on the 4x2 board (due to the symmetry of
> the 4x4 board and possible moves).

"direct proportion" means that the numbers should just increase with 
the bigger board, right?  When I run your program, I get:

Wins of first  == 64730
Wins of second == 55728
Second player is bounded to win

The first player has more wins.  Why favor the other guy?

James Edward Gray II