X-sudoku challenge (OT)



There was a thread a little while ago concerning Fortran-generated
sudokus. I have now tuned my program to generate X-sudokus, in which each
diagonal also has the constraint that each of the digits 1-9 must appear
once. The one below has only 15 start values. Fame for the first correct
solution? No guessing required.

Regards,

Mike Metcalf

P.S. A standard solver will find that the sudoku has many solutions. Only
one is an x-sudoku.





0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 0
0 1 0 4 0 8 0 0 6
9 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 9 0 5 0 0
0 6 1 0 0 0 0 0 3
0 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 7


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