Hi!
I forgot to note that Bill Raymond also wrote his own solver for Freecell,
which is supposed to be very good, but has not made it available for public
consumption in any form, so I cannot link to it either. See:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bill+raymond+freecell&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
And search the archives of this mailing list (
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/ ) for WKRfresno_at_aol.com.
So I did not particularly discriminate against Danny A. Jones solver. It's
just that this is a list of link and there's nothing for me to link there.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Saturday 03 February 2007 20:51, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Saturday 03 February 2007 19:18, Gary Campbell wrote:
> > In response to Shlomi Fish:
> >
> > I don't consider the description that WAS in the Wikipedia of my solver
> > to be any more boastful than the description of yours as "unique."
>
> I can remove the "unique" or rephrase it. It's not an issue.
>
> However, regarding the text I deleted:
>
> <<<<
> It gives short (generally well under 100 steps), quick solutions to the
> first million FreeCell games (using the standard game numbering scheme).
>
>
> "short" and "quick". This implies that the solutions of the other solvers
> are not short and quick while yours are. And it is boasting.
>
> <<<<
> For more information, or to download this solver, follow one of the
> preceding links.
>
>
> It is not good wikipedia etiquette to say such thing. If the readers are
> interested, they will follow the link. Else, you shouldn't take the extra
> effort to cajule them into downloading your solver.
>
> <<<<
> In addition to giving correct solutions to the first million games, it
> accepts the entire 8-billion standard game numbers plus 3 "bonus" games
> numbered -1, -2, and -3.
>
>
> Lots of large numbers in there... The boards that the solvers accept were
> not mentioned for any of the other solvers. Now was the word "correct"
> mentioned because it is assumed that unless the solver has bugs, it will
> give correct results. Your description implies that there's something wrong
> with the other solvers in this regard.
>
> For the record, Freecell Solver accepts any arbitrary position as input,
> including initial positions that don't exist in the MS Freecell range, or
> positions at mid-play. That's also the case for Patsolve. So it's not an
> advantage to your solver, but rather a possible disadvantage.
>
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