First observation: My guess is that we and possibly
one or two others are all that are even reading this.
Therefore, presenting our solvers to "nobody" is
kind of an exercise in futility.
Second: What I mean is I have a solver integrated
into a free cell player much as yours and others are
integrated into FCPro. This makes them accessible
to the extent that they are easy to use and produce
good and rapid solutions.
I'm not sure what you are offering this latest version
of your free cell solver to do. What does it give folks
that isn't available in the FCPro version, or in my
package which is available at
http://numin8r.us/programs
Is it merely an example of your programming
standards and practices, or is it a free cell solver
with significant added value in its own right?
If there is anybody "out there" who wants to try
our solvers for whatever reason, they can do so.
I'm, of course, curious how they would compare
them, and to what uses they put either of them.
----- Original Message -----
From: Shlomi Fish
To: fc-solve-discuss_at_yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: Release 2.20.0 is available now with an installer for Windows
On Friday 27 March 2009 23:19:10 Gary Campbell wrote:
> I guess this is "demo" enough for anyone who
> wants to track it down.
What do you mean?
> I was disappointed by
> the way the solution was presented, and I have
> to confess, I couldn't follow it.
I used a similar way of displaying the list of intermediate states since
Freecell Solver's inception. That was before I learned of the standard
notation. One advantage is, is that you can more easily continue a solution if
you've lost track of it.
Anyway, fc-solve can output only states or only moves or even only moves in
standards notation. For example:
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
$ pi-make-microsoft-freecell-board -t 10916159 | fc-solve -l gi -snx -m
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
2a 6b 62 3c 3d b3 d7 1b 14 b1
6d 6b 63 61 53 85 c6 86 8c 84
8h 1h ch 1c 1h 7h c4 8c b8 c8
67 1b 1c 17 c8 6c 38 b6 1b 83
c1 71 51 6c b6 26 2b 24 23 25
26 2h 1h b2 52 5b 53 b5 d5 17
4b 4h 1d a1 31 38 18 1a c1 41
48 54 18 1c a1 45 4a 4h d4 45
1d c1 7c 7h 75 81 8h 84 57 5h
5h 48 4h 4h 45 b4 18 5b 5h a1
4a d4 5d b5 75 7h 1h 7b 7h bh
72 7h 31v3 3b 43 d7 b4 54 35v2 3d
c3 72 d7 3b 3h 51 81 8h 7h 8h
8h 6h 8h 6h 8h 6h ah 42 bh 1h
1h 2h 1h 2h 1h 2h 1h 2h 1h 2h
1h 2h 1h 2h 1h 2h 1h 2h
This game is solveable.
Total number of states checked is 573975.
This scan generated 389007 states.
}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Note that FCS does not take into consideration the MS-Freecell/FC-Pro auto-
moves (like moving relevant cards to the foundation). So these moves are
explicit in the solution. This caused problems when integrating FCS into FC-
Pro back then, and I had to write this code to translate the solutions:
http://svn.berlios.de/viewcvs/fc-solve/trunk/ext-ifaces/FC-Pro/
It may still work, but who knows.
> Somehow, I
> didn't get the original posting of message/889.
Interesting. I got it fine, and as you saw - so did YahooGroups. Maybe the
.zip attachment confused your end.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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