Hi Danny,
On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 11:10:16 -0000
"dannyjones183" <dannyjones183_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I did not list the site's URL because he purposely makes it difficult
> to access his solutions. He also limits the number of solutions that
> can be accessed within a day. Probably a way to keep others from
> copying his solutions.
>
> http://freecellgamesolutions.com/
Ah, yes, I am familiar with this site. When I checked this site yesterday,
it required enabling JavaScript to view the solutions, and then it needed me
to enter a Captcha (might be an interesting way of bypassing more "legitimate"
captchas in order to spam) The code for the underlying solver was also
naturally not provided.
> From the few solutions I examined, automoves are present and the
> solutions can be loaded into the latest version of FCPro.
OK.
>
> As for my freecell solver, I maintain a byte array for the moves
> associated with each layout that I generate while searching for a
> solution. When another move would exceed the size of the moves array
> for the current layout, I abandon the layout and proceed to another
> layout that's been cached.
So are you doing a depth-limited depth first search? I don't fully understand
how this can work.
>
> I recently made a run of the first 1000000 deals while limiting the
> number of moves to 64. I had a median of 48 moves for the solveable
> deals, but the results were skewed at the upper end. I'm not
> surprised that the results were skewed, but I do wonder how he
> managed to get (what appears to be) a normalized bell curve for his
> results.
Curious. Does your solver yield fully optimal solutions?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
>
> Regards, Danny A. Jones
>
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