Algorithm Combination

Algorithm Combination is a technique where the solver pulls from a single pool of algorithms and combines two or more of the algorithms to solve a puzzle state. So far it has been applied to the last layer. There, instead of learning algorithms for all possible last layer states, the solver learns a small set of algorithms then uses a combination of two of the algorithms to solve the last layer.

Lars Petrus starts developing his system in 2004

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In 2011, Thom Barlow developed a version of OLLCP that used the algorithm combination technique.

Thom Barlow started development on Duplex in 2012 - an extension of Petrus' system to misoriented edges LL.

A follow up post and the system is named to Duplex

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