Hi Danny,
On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:41:01 -0000
"dannyjones183" <dannyjones183_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> (replacing all previous reply attempts. Aaaagh!!!)
>
> How I see the moves performed:
>
> #00006240 Attempt: 1 NumFcs=4 (ShlomiFish) 173 moves
>
I'm not sure I get to the bottom of the table you've entered, especially given
that I'm not fluent in reading standard notation. However, I should note that
this entire thread demonstrates one of the reasons why I dislike the so-called
"standard notation" - it is hard to implement the automoves in a way that will
conform to the quirks (and the bugs) of Microsoft Freecell or Freecell Pro.
So far I can think of several automove policies:
1. The MS Freecell one.
2. The FreeCell Pro one.
3. The Raymond prune one.
4. The buggy one as implemented by the horne play misinterpretation in
Freecell Solver.
5. A hypothetical one with no moves whatsoever.
And there may be others. The two other reasons why I dislike standard notation
are:
1. It is incredibly easy to misplace the position where one stopped following
the solution, while in the Freecell Solver "-p -t -sam" solutions, each board is
fully displayed, allowing for an easy to follow the solution again.
2. The column to an empty column moves are ambiguous with respect to the number
of cards being moved. The extended standard notation fixed it in part by
adding a v parameter (but which is only respected by a standard move).
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As a result, I think we need a better standard for notating the
solutions of Freecell and other solutions. I think the "fc-solve -sam -p -t"
solutions are pretty good, but we may wish to consider something based on XML
or JSON (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON ). I realise I sound a little
like http://xkcd.com/386/ , but I hope you can see my point.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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