On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 WKRfresno_at_aol.com wrote:
> I'm not understanding how a machine readable format could be useful.
So you can plop it into a game program and watch it autoplay the whole
game (at one move per second, say), rather than playing out the moves by
hand.
> But the user would have to look for a column with an S6 somewhere underneath.
> Not a practical idea. "-5 7 3" seems much more useful to the casual
> freecell player, who must be the focus of the human-readable solutions.
Well, one could do both, as in either "-5 7(S6) 3(D7)" or "-5 S6(7) D7(3)",
just for added clarity for those people who make a mistake playing by
hand because they mixed up columns 2 and 3 (which both had a red 7). It
might be good to include the automoves too as "<D3 D4 H6 out>" or
something, just to let the user know that that event took place, but that
he or she doesn't have to do anything (unless he or she is playing a game
that's not using automoves and then gets confused because the solution
doesn't list them).
Received on Wed Dec 19 2001 - 20:44:29 IST