Comment by taneq

> They said that ``brute force" search may have won this time, but it was not a general strategy

It seems self-evident to me that 'brute force' is the most general strategy there is. Any (computable) problem is theoretically solvable by just coding the simplest, most obvious solution, which is usually pretty easy. The run-time of brute force is sometimes an issue, but that just means you need more of it!