Filipe Teixeira
Member
you mean step 1 right? step 2 is just pblIt has been thought of before, but it has two problems:
1. Recognition on step 2 is really really bad and hard
2. There are a huge number of cases for step 2 and the algorithms aren't friendly
Having said that, it might be worth a fresh look, and see if you can create a recognition method; probably the orientation algorithm would have to avoid changing the permutation of the pieces in order to 1-look the solution. But that will increase the length of the algorithm.