I introduced my sister to PySol, and one of the first games she tried
there was Fan. I read its rules, and found it is quite similar to
Freecell, probably enough to adjust FCS to solve it in one fashion or the
other. The main problem is the number of stacks: about 18. That would
probably mean that only indirect stack states mode would be able to solve
it effectively.
Thinking about it now, I believe that the only thing I'll need is to write
a new preset for it. If so, I'll include it in the 2.6.0 release. If not,
I may work on support for in the 2.7.x branch. However, the sheer number
of stacks may mean people would have to compile it themselves, because I'd
rather not make my states much larger in memory than they are now just to
accomodate it.
The other games that are similar to it may prove harder to tackle as they
either have a redeal feature or have alternate colour foundations.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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Received on Sat Jun 22 2002 - 06:48:09 IDT