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Dynamic Forcing Chains<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Dynamic Forcing Chain uses the same building blocks as an ordinary Forcing Chain – the same “if this digit is in, that one’s out; if this one’s out, that one’s forced in” steps. The difference is one thing only, and everything else follows from it: an ordinary chain reads from a frozen grid, while a dynamic chain edits the grid as it goes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s what that changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An ordinary Forcing Chain is one thread.<\/strong> You start from a single assumption and follow a straight line of consequences. Every step looks at the original<\/em> grid, untouched, and each link has exactly one cause – the step right before it. It’s a single line of dominoes: A knocks over B, B knocks over C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A dynamic chain rubs out candidates as it goes, so the threads start helping each other.<\/strong> When the dynamic version concludes “this digit is out of that cell,” it actually erases that candidate from its working copy before taking the next step. Now a later deduction can read a grid that several earlier steps have already changed. And that unlocks the move an ordinary chain can never make: a cell becoming forced because two separate threads each removed one of its candidates.<\/strong> Neither thread could finish the job alone, only their combined effect does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That’s the whole distinction. An ordinary chain is a single line where each step rests on the one before it. A dynamic chain is a branching net<\/strong> where a step can rest on several<\/em> earlier steps at once, because all of them have already edited the same shared grid. “Dynamic” just means the grid is changing underneath you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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