[vitus]

The reason why I claim that black is uninteresting for the purposes of board memorization is that if you are explicitly stalling until there is enough information to uniquely identify the game board, then either the black square is never uncovered, or the opposing team uncovers the black square, in which case you win automatically.

It's not difficult to be adversarial against the proposed naive strategy (just generate boards with enough overlap such that you can't uniquely identify them from such a small number of revealed squares), but it's easiest to generate fully random boards (without any concerns for "weird" boards) and be done with it.

[anonymoushn]

You could eliminate a board from consideration because a square was revealed to be white rather than black.