Hi all, can anyone give a 2-Freecell solution for the #17760 and #17880 deals? For reference, I'm talking about (the game columns are placed in lines): # MS...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 2, 2012 11:45 am
Hi all, On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:04 +0200 ... After a lot of work on reducing memory fragmentation and excessive calls to malloc()/realloc()/free(), we've ran...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Mar 2, 2012 4:25 pm
I don’t have one for 17880 (my solver is still in the early stages for solving with blocked free cells), but here is a solution for 17760. -Gary Campbell ...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Mar 2, 2012 4:37 pm
Before you ask, I don’t know why my solution included moves past (50. 65). They are all AutoMoves. Maybe it’s related to the bug I’m working on at the...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 2, 2012 6:13 pm
Hello, Gary, On Thu, 5 May 2005 06:26:48 -0800 ... What do you mean by "solving with blocked free cells"? ... Many thanks! I was able to play it now in PySolFC...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Mar 2, 2012 6:38 pm
To produce a solution using only 2 free cells, you block 2 (4 total – 2 blocked = 2 remaining available). I represent the blocked free cells with BB in the...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 2, 2012 7:17 pm
Hi Gary, On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:37:43 -0800 ... I see. What I do in the context of Freecell Solver is pass an argument called "--num-freecells 2" (where the...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 2, 2012 7:53 pm
Hi all, On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:17:11 +0200 ... [SNIPPED] ... since Yahoo Groups dropped the attachment, I've uploaded it here: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 6, 2012 8:21 pm
Hi all, I would like to consult with you about pruning deep positions in Freecell games (especially those with only 2 available freecells). As the game...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 7, 2012 7:37 pm
Hi all, in the http://twit.tv/show/floss-weekly/197 FLOSS Weekly episode, which is about the “Overtone package which lets you create music and sounds just by...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 5, 2012 9:27 am
Hi all, Freecell Solver’s version control repository was converted from Subversion (which is an open-source centralised version control system) to Mercurial ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 14, 2012 10:44 am
Hi all, I recently added the "--show-exceeded-limits" (or "-sel" for short) flag to fc-solve. What it does is remove ambiguity in the output: [SHELL] ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 16, 2012 5:00 pm
Hi all, in another failed attempt to solve the 2-freecells deal No. 982, I have implemented a scheme which I've called "Split-BrFS". It was implemented in the ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 23, 2012 9:04 am
Hi all. Great news everybody: we have finally reached a conclusive verdict regarding the 2-Freecell Microsoft deal No. 982 : it was demonstrated to be...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 23, 2012 2:11 pm
Hi all, this message aims to detail some of the recent optimisations done to reduce memory consumption in regards to the dbm_fc_solver in the repository tip...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
May 28, 2012 7:40 am
Hi all, I'm forwarding a message I sent to Dr. de Bondt about compactly representing Freecell positions/states. Now that I think of it, I think we don't need...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 5, 2012 11:41 pm
Hi all, On Sat, 5 May 2012 12:10:17 +0300 ... Well, apparently, the conversion from Subversion to Git to Mercurial was not flawless, and so I had to restort to...
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Lawrence Hart
ldhart2001
Jun 10, 2012 4:18 pm
Does Windows 7 have an accessible location for setting old freecell satistics? Windows XP and earlier had a location in the registy. Your help would be...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 10, 2012 7:15 pm
Hi Mr. Hart, On Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:48:01 -0000 ... I have no idea about Microsoft Windows FreeCell , so I cannot help with it. Sorry. However, please consider...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 12, 2012 5:49 pm
Hi all, Freecell Solver 3.12.0 was released and can be downloaded from its homepage at http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ . Freecell Solver is a reusable and ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 12, 2012 5:58 pm
Hi all, the subject of that post was wrong because I edited an older message and re-submitted it. The new release is 3.12.0 - not 3.10.0 (which was released ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 17, 2012 5:30 am
Hi all, as I’ve been playing some Baker’s Dozen (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Dozen_%28solitaire%29 ) lately, I came to a realisation of one...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 19, 2012 12:25 pm
Hi all, On Sun, 17 Jun 2012 08:30:53 +0300 ... OK, so I implemented this prune in commit 7cd599215f83a82241bb10abd97434903e8bf88b in the repository (titled...
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MichaelK
wgreview
Jun 26, 2012 4:41 pm
... I would consider this highly suspicious, and certainly undesirable. How can pruning make deals which were solved before suddenly become intractable? The...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jun 26, 2012 5:31 pm
Hi Michael, thanks for your E-mail. On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:38:30 -0000 ... Well, the problem is that there are many factors at play here as the algorithm is...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 3, 2012 11:02 am
Hi all, in continuation to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/1115 , I was thinking how to represent Baker’s Dozen positions. What I...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 3, 2012 2:47 pm
Hi all, On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 14:02:34 +0300 ... replying to myself I'd like to note that I found a way in which we can improve on it. At the moment, each card...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 3, 2012 3:03 pm
Hi all, On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 17:47:49 +0300 ... replying to myself again I'd like to note that log2(209) * 12 should have been log(2) * 11 because there are only...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 10, 2012 12:14 pm
Hi all, I ran the solver on the first 1,000 Baker’s Dozen Deals and here are the results, which can be found here: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 11, 2012 8:51 am
Hi all, can anyone provide a solution for the 2-freecells Freecell Pro/Microsoft FreeCell deal No. 384243 or prove that it is impossible? For reference, here...
