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This is similar to what daw tries to do (as I understand it) but I hope I can explain the idea better and produce a better coverage at the same time.

Alice will use the following basic shape

 .#..
 ###.
 .###
 ..#.
 

and arrange lots of pieces like that in a pattern so that the don't touch each other. She doesn't have to lie a complete basic shape in one move, she just fills in spots that ought to be tiled in the large pattern.

 .#.###.
 ###.#.#
 .###.##
 #.#.#.#
 ##.###.
 The empty spots form infinite lines along some diagonals and in between you can always fit exactly one piece.
 

The empty spots form infinite lines along some diagonals and in between you can always fit exactly one piece.

A little bit of counting now shows that

We need 4 empty fields for each 8 filled fields, giving us a coverage of 8/12=2/3

of the total area. In each turn Alice adds 10 new pieces and Bob can remove at most

8

So in the long run Alice can cover arbitrarily large parts of the plane with this pattern.

This is similar to what daw tries to do (as I understand it) but I hope I can explain the idea better and produce a better coverage at the same time.

Alice will use the following basic shape

 .#..
 ###.
 .###
 ..#.
 

and arrange lots of pieces like that in a pattern so that the don't touch each other. She doesn't have to lie a complete basic shape in one move, she just fills in spots that ought to be tiled in the large pattern.

 .#.###.
 ###.#.#
 .###.##
 #.#.#.#
 ##.###.
 The empty spots form infinite lines along some diagonals and in between you can always fit exactly one piece.
 

A little bit of counting now shows that

We need 4 empty fields for each 8 filled fields, giving us a coverage of 8/12=2/3

of the total area. In each turn Alice adds 10 new pieces and Bob can remove at most

8

So in the long run Alice can cover arbitrarily large parts of the plane with this pattern.

This is similar to what daw tries to do (as I understand it) but I hope I can explain the idea better and produce a better coverage at the same time.

Alice will use the following basic shape

 .#..
 ###.
 .###
 ..#.
 

and arrange lots of pieces like that in a pattern so that the don't touch each other. She doesn't have to lie a complete basic shape in one move, she just fills in spots that ought to be tiled in the large pattern.

 .#.###.
 ###.#.#
 .###.##
 #.#.#.#
 ##.###.

The empty spots form infinite lines along some diagonals and in between you can always fit exactly one piece.

A little bit of counting now shows that

We need 4 empty fields for each 8 filled fields, giving us a coverage of 8/12=2/3

of the total area. In each turn Alice adds 10 new pieces and Bob can remove at most

8

So in the long run Alice can cover arbitrarily large parts of the plane with this pattern.

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This is similar to what daw tries to do (as I understand it) but I hope I can explain the idea better and produce a better coverage at the same time.

Alice will use the following basic shape

 .#..
 ###.
 .###
 ..#.
 

and arrange lots of pieces like that in a pattern so that the don't touch each other. She doesn't have to lie a complete basic shape in one move, she just fills in spots that ought to be tiled in the large pattern.

 .#.###.
 ###.#.#
 .###.##
 #.#.#.#
 ##.###.
 The empty spots form infinite lines along some diagonals and in between you can always fit exactly one piece.
 

A little bit of counting now shows that

We need 4 empty fields for each 8 filled fields, giving us a coverage of 8/12=2/3

of the total area. In each turn Alice adds 10 new pieces and Bob can remove at most

8

So in the long run Alice can cover arbitrarily large parts of the plane with this pattern.