Optimal Battleship
Checkerboard, 3-parity or a heat map? A ladder from random hunting to a computer-searched mix of hundreds of strategies, and smart 3-parity, a rule you can play from memory.
Read it at optimalbattleship.com →Each study takes one game and builds a ladder of strategies: from the rules people already use, through cleverer ones you can still play by hand, up to the strongest play a computer search can find.
Every rung is measured the same way: how often it wins head to head, and how well it holds up against an opponent who knows exactly how it plays. Then the question that matters most: which ideas survive the trip back to a strategy a person can actually use.
Studies
More games to come.