In a message dated 12/19/01 8:47:11 PM Pacific Standard Time,
tomh_at_po.crl.go.jp writes:
> 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.
I like the idea. Who has this game program?
> > 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).
That format is far to complex, jumbled for the casual freecell player.
Remember human/machine interaction.
> 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).
I like that idea too.
BR
Received on Thu Dec 20 2001 - 15:56:42 IST