Re: Updated Simple Simon Statistics (With the "Sequence to False Parent" Move)

From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif_at_iglu.org.il>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:40:45 +0300

On Friday 10 July 2009 00:04:26 Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Today I did some extra work on Freecell Solver. I'll report on "What's new
> on the trunk" in a separate message, but just note that I've restored the
> "sequences to false parent" Simple Simon move. It's not enabled by default
> and needs to be enabled by using "-to abcdefghi" (the default test order
> for Simple Simon is "-to abcdefgh").
>
> After solving some bugs in my set-up, I reran the range analyser, and
> measured the number of solvable/unsolvable games and the iteration numbers
> it took Freecell Solver to report a verdict for them. Here are the final
> statistics:
>

I've now ran all the solutions through Games-Solitaire-Verify and it didn't
report any invalid move. So I guess the solutions are all valid.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish

> {{{{{{{{{{{{{
>
> solved
> --------------
>
> Count: 4533
> Mean: 2692.03132583278
> StdDev: 52642.0802567286
> Median: 71
> Min: 45
> Max: 2261100
> Up to 100: 2994 (66.05%)
> Up to 1000: 1237 (27.29%)
> Up to 10000: 242 (5.34%)
> Up to 100000: 43 (0.95%)
> Up to 1000000: 14 (0.31%)
> Up to 1500000: 1 (0.02%)
>
>
> unsolvable
> --------------
>
> Count: 467
> Mean: 34613.4561027837
> StdDev: 240842.995203836
> Median: 66
> Min: 3
> Max: 3167907
> Up to 100: 264 (56.53%)
> Up to 1000: 126 (26.98%)
> Up to 10000: 51 (10.92%)
> Up to 100000: 11 (2.36%)
> Up to 1000000: 7 (1.50%)
> Up to 1500000: 0 (0.00%)
>
>
> Stuck:
> --------------
>
> }}}}}}}}}}}}}
>
> As one can see, over 90% of the games are solvable, and most times the
> verdict is reached after the first 100 iterations. This is a correction to:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/983
>
> Which is the previous Simple Simon statistics.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish

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Received on Fri Jul 10 2009 - 06:46:04 IDT