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by Patrick_Devine 4484 days ago
I was doing the same. I got up to 1024 before losing, so I wonder if the algorithm would be better if you changed it to do a minmax search on three directions, and always omit the fourth unless you're forced to move that way.

That way your large values tend to be clump together and you don't get a small value buried which burns up a square.