And if a strategy for perfect play only from the initial position is a strong solution, then what do you call the even more strongly solved case of a strategy for perfect play from any position?
The second paragraph of the paper isn't super specific about its definition for "weakly solved", but I read it as agreeing with my statement. It also calls checkers "weakly solved", a game for which a strategy to beat any possible move is known.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved_game
And if a strategy for perfect play only from the initial position is a strong solution, then what do you call the even more strongly solved case of a strategy for perfect play from any position?
The second paragraph of the paper isn't super specific about its definition for "weakly solved", but I read it as agreeing with my statement. It also calls checkers "weakly solved", a game for which a strategy to beat any possible move is known.