Solitaire Battleship analyses often have a chess problem-like beauty to them.
Many people solve Battleship puzzles the way they eat salted peanuts: gobbling up puzzle after
puzzle, solving a puzzle as quickly as possible and moving
on to the next one without looking back.
This is a perfectly legitimate way to solve
puzzles in general, and Battleship puzzles in particular. I must confess, however, that I will
often solve the same puzzle again and again, trying to
eke out the cleanest and most elegant solution.
You can find some of these
analyses on MVS’s website. Reading through them may offer insights into solving
Battleship puzzles (I welcome any insights you may have!).
It was with pleasant surprise that I found that other websites had translated these
Battleship analyses into other languages (German
and Turkish).