On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Adrian Ettlinger wrote:
> A new version of FcPro updated to include Freecell Solver version 2.6.1
> has now been made available in place of the former release usind FCS version
> 2.4.3.. It can be downloaded from
> http://www.rrhistorical.com/rrdata/Fcpro65/ .
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> With regard to false impossibles, we had an interesting case of
> serendipity here. We expected to get improvement in the false impossible
> tendency from 2.6.1 only by use of the atomic move mode. As it turned out,
> 2.6.1 contained another improvement which greatly reduces its inherent
> tendency to false impossibles, but did not eliminate it entirely. Instead
> of the 185 false impossibles over the range of approximately 25,000
> positions in our standard test, there were only three. The atomic move
> option eliminates those.
>
> As regards the speed competition between FCS and Patsolve, we must now
> give the crown back to Patsolve. FCS is considerably slower -- by a factor
> of at least five, when it operates in the atomic move (non-false-impossible)
> mode. FCS's speed advantage over FcPro, in the false-impossible-prone mode,
> however, is now more like three to one, with the improvements made in 2.6.1.
>
Do you mean FCS's speed advantage over Patsolve?
> Further details are provided on the website.
>
That does not seem to be the case. I reloaded the website twice and still
it reports the Freecell Solver version as 2.4.3 and "atomic moves" as a
future feature.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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