Hi all, Freecell Solver 3.8.0 was released and can be downloaded from its homepage at http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ . Freecell Solver is a reusable and...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jul 8, 2011 12:07 am
Hi all, today's night I played with generating faster scans while using the --depth-test-order flag. My results can be found at...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Aug 26, 2011 4:50 pm
Hi Dr. Holroyd, as you may recall, I am Shlomi Fish, the author of Freecell Solver ( http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ ), a library for automatically solving layouts...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Sep 6, 2011 2:36 pm
Hi all, one can download patsolve-shlomif-3.0.3 from: http://fc-solve.berlios.de/download.html#download_other_solvers The highlight of this release is the...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Nov 8, 2011 10:15 am
Hi all, due to the upcoming demise of the software hub berlios.de where the Freecell Solver web-site was hosted, I moved it to: http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Nov 8, 2011 10:31 am
Hi all, Matt Birrell (CCed to this message) has informed me that he has written an automated solver for Klondike Solitaire: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 15, 2012 7:51 pm
Hi all, Freecell Solver 3.10.0 was released and can be downloaded from its homepage at http://fc-solve.berlios.de/ . Freecell Solver is a reusable and...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 24, 2012 4:31 pm
Hi all, this is a spec for a new solver I'd like to write based on partitioning the graph of the positions emerging from a certain initial position, into fully...
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Gary Campbell
jlandgdc
Jan 24, 2012 4:59 pm
A couple of observations. A move from an incompatible parent is not well defined as such, in my opinion. I like to think of the contents of a column as empty,...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 24, 2012 6:10 pm
Hi Gary, thanks for your comments. See below for my comments. On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:58:49 -0800 ... You may have misunderstood me. I was referring only to...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 30, 2012 12:09 am
Hi all, I've written a report about attempting to solve 2-freecell-based Freecell deals using Freecell Solver here: ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Jan 31, 2012 7:10 pm
Hi all, in continuation to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fc-solve-discuss/message/1096 , here is the final report of solving 2-Freecell deals using the...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Feb 10, 2012 2:22 pm
Hi all, well, after I've written the specification for the Fully Connected Components solver (see the preliminary SPEC posted to the list at ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Feb 11, 2012 7:53 pm
Hi all, I'm sending a better version of this report for posterity. I've written a report about attempting to solve the 2-freecell-based Windows Freecell deals ...
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Shlomi Fish
shlomif2
Mar 1, 2012 5:44 pm
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...
